MenTaLguY wrote:
Just fwiw, I know at least WindowMaker and xfwm (xfce) use alt+drag for this purpose as well. I think it's pretty universal among modern Unix window managers.
Just had this idea:
A new tool. When you click on a point in the canvas, a new window pops up with a list of all the objects beneath that point. Canvas and new window are interconnected - what you select on the canvas gets selected on the list and vice versa. A checkbox in that new window would then enable pressed Alt key behaviour.
It would be good to have this (or something else making the feature graphically accessible) in parallel to the Alt-Click stuff anyway, since you have visual scale handles, and the <> keys; you have the (F1) selection tool, and the cursor keys; you have the F1...Fx keys (and other shortcuts) and the tool buttons. You always have a thing you can click on and another thing (key) to use the same capability directly from the keyboard.
- Felix