Michael Grosberg wrote:
Is it possible to create a universal "snap on/off" command which will be in the menu so there won't be a need to keep the document preferences dialog open all the time? When it's on, it will respect all the settings in the dialog. When off, no snap will be active. Ideally this should be in the view menu below grid and guides.
Of course that would be easy to implement, and I've been considering something like that before. What kept me back is that it will also make snapping more confusing. For example, for snapping to an object we would need to enable the universal snap option, _and_ "snap nodes" or "snap bounding box corners", _and _ "snap to object nodes" or "snap to object paths". It will happen way to often that you'll forget to enable one of these three options, if you're aware of them at all. Even for experienced users this is confusing, I've been there ;-).
In virtually all workflows, you would either use "snap nodes" or "snap bounding box corners", not both at the same time. So to disable all snapping, you currently only have to uncheck one of these options in the document properties to disable all snapping. Maybe we should have a key/menu item/icon bound to both these options to make them easier accessible, instead of adding an universal snap option? This way you don't have to keep the document preferences dialog open all the time, and we will only have two options in series for snapping to objects. For snapping to e.g. guides, we will still have only one option to be enabled.
So, should we add a key binding, menu item and icon for this?
Diederik
Bug #170970 in the bug tracker suggests something similar. I'm okay with both icon and menu item, either should work. I think it would be really helpful.
Thank you for your work on Inkscape so far - Michael
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