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From: Maximilian Albert [mailto:Anhalter42@...173...] Sent: zondag 23 december 2007 23:15 To: Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan) Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: Angled guidelines
Yeah, I know that it's of course required under the hood. But normally I don't know or don't care around which point the guideline should rotate when setting the angle manually in the dialog. So from a user's perspective I find it slightly clumsy. But I guess better canvas interactivity will eliminate the need for using the dialog most of the time anyway.
You can choose to just ignore the x,y values :P I agree that the dialog is not up to Inkscape's standard, and should be redone in 0.47.
Having given it a second though, I believe it would be nice to add a kind of "rotation center" to guidelines as well, which would only be visible when a guideline is clicked twice (similar to how it works with objects in the Selector tool). Then this rotation center could be dragged freely around the canvas (which would also move the guideline so that both are always bound to each other), and the coordinates of the rotation center would be the ones displayed in the guidelines dialog. This way these coordinates are given a concrete visual interpretation, and it is always immediately clear around which point the guideline will rotate when it is dragged. Does this make sense, or are there better suggestions?
I think this is how coreldraw does it. At the moment, guidelines are not selectable so it seems that this would imply a lot of under-the-hood coding. It is how I would like it though, yes. :-)