RE: [Inkscape-devel] Are these bugs?

On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 23:53, bulia byak wrote:

That's because a shape after any boolean operation becomes a generic path, and ceases to be any special shape it was before (such as a rect). In a general case, you cannot expect a result of a boolean operation to be anything but a path.

Yeah, I understood that but...

However, for X/Y you don't need XML editor. Switch to Selector - there are convenient spinbuttons for X, Y, W and H in the top panel under the menu. They work for any object.

...why are the values different for the two different dialogues:

http://www.charlietech.com/tmp/inkscape-oo-er.png

I mean, the width/height ratio is completely different so it's not even just a different scale!?