2014-04-15 22:51 GMT+02:00 Dmitry Kirsanov <buliabyak@...400...>:
Some text editors have special modes or options to visualize spaces at the ends of lines. This isn't often needed but sometimes it is necessary. And then, selecting text by clicking on a space between words is a pretty intuitive thing to do as well.
We have the visual and geometric bboxes, so why not make use of this here? Geometric bbox would only include glyph outlines - but the visual one, which already includes things like shadow filters (which can be almost transparent), would also include spaces. I think it would be logical enough and accommodate different needs without introducing a new option.
That's the opposite of what I would expect, e.g. I would expect leading / trailing spaces to be included in the geometric box, but not in the visual box.
I also disagree that an all-space text object must be deleted automatically. There may be all kinds of reasons to have such objects in a document. The only automatic deletion which has always been in Text tool, and which is quite enough, is if you just clicked on canvas to start a new text and then immediately pressed Esc or switched tool without typing anything.
OK.
I think the situation with invisible objects would be somewhat improved if one of the buttons - the color-managed view indicator (in the corner between the scrollbars) and/or the zoom lock button (above the vertical scrollbar) - were replaced by a toggle of the outline mode.
Regards, Krzysztof