On 08/07/2011 08:18 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
This wouldn't be an issue if the snap toggles on the right were better. Right now you first turn on things to snap and then turn on things to be snapped to. It would be more intuitive if there was no hierarchy and you enabled each thing both as a snap source and snap target.
That would be a mess! There are simply to much possible snap sources and snap targets to give them all an individual toggle. Besides, we do not enable snapping bounding boxes to paths and vice-versa, see [1] for an explanation. This is what's being communicated by dividing the snap toggles in three groups. Although I agree that the snapping toggles could be more intuitive, I don't know of an easy solution that would fit all.
The current implementation at least this gives you an easy way to (for example) first snap some bounding boxes, turn it bounding box snapping off with one-click, and then continue snapping paths, without having to think about each toggle individually.
We could then set whether inserted smooth nodes snap to the grid or not.
There's already a "snap to smooth-nodes". We could think of changing this into a "snap _from_ & to smooth-nodes". Or do you propose to insert a tool-specific toggle on the snap toolbar?
Diederik
[1] http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5837&p=24720#p24720