Diederik van Lierop wrote:
Vladimir Savic wrote:
There's no visualization of snapping (pervert request -- I know it wouldn't be easy to implement) :)
Bulia and I had a discussion about this some time ago. We could have a an icon in the statusbar that lights up when you're snapped and grays out when not. From what I've heard this is the way Xara does it. We could also have a dot blinking for a second, on the canvas, at the position where the snapping occurred...
I think having some kind of on-canvas indicator of snap status would greatly improve the usability of snapping in Inkscape. I've found the Xara approach of having an icon in the toolbar very difficult to use. You need to keep one eye on the pointer while trying to align it with the snap target and one eye on the snap indicator in the status bar. This works ok if you have a small display but becomes more and more difficult with larger displays, and forget about it if you are using multiple monitors.
I tend to think AutoCAD does snapping pretty well. It places a small static indicator at the point that will be snapped to, given the current mouse location and snap settings. In Inkscape I could imagine highlighting the target node or bounding box. A video of snapping in AutoCAD can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNGsZ3aZuck. You can skip to ~6:20 when they start using running snaps which would probably be most appropriate for a tool like Inkscape.
Cheers,
Jed