To me, it is a misnomer because widgets using it as "default units" is incidental. The setting is stored under "inkscape:document-units" in SVG.
So this is what confuses me then perhaps? People want it to work as setting the default unit for the UI?
As Bryce wrote:
"To fix that we could add a "Display units" feature that lets the user work in the GUI with a different set of units than are stored in the document. That's not the sort of feature we want to be putting in the week before release but is certainly something we could do in a 0.92 timeframe."
I think we could easily get such an extra setting in 0.91.1. (stored e.g. as "inkscape:display-units")
-Johan
On 21-11-2014 20:58, Josh Andler wrote:
Is "Default units" a misnomer if people can change unit widgets for the document in other places?
Cheers, Josh
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...2592...> wrote:
I just noticed the option is still called "Default units". I thought I mentioned this before, but it should really be renamed to "Document units". "Default units" is a huge misnomer.
- Johan
On 20-11-2014 21:09, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
Hi,
We need to decide what to do about a whole set of bugs brought on by the current behavior when changing inkscape:document-unit.[1] In 0.48 this attribute only effected what values were shown in the GUI. All values inside the SVG file were still stored as 'user-units' ('px' in CSS styles). In 0.91 changing inkscape:document-unit form the 'Page' tab of the Document Properties dialog changes the 'viewBox' and attempts to change all the length units inside the SVG file (rectangle width/height, etc.) to match. I can see how this could be useful but it is incredibly difficult to do right as illustrated by the number of bugs reported (and the many more I am sure have not been reported, think, for example of all the length values inside filters).
Question: How easy would it be to revert back to the 0.48 behavior for 0.91?
Tav
[1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Units_In_Inkscape:_Document_Unit_Cha...