Interesting bug,

There's an issue in trunk where any text object extends far above and
below it's visible bounding box. A serious issue reported to me twice at
LGM and frustrating to me doing any sort of text work.

Is this the same or similar issue? Should the selectable area for text
be the visual bbox instead?

I'd like to say that spaces in text are not the same as invisible
objects which are not the same as no objects. Yet if I understand KK's
post on the bug, they should be treated the same way.

My opinion is that spaces in text are visual objects that are visible,
even if they are unapparent. As much as 0.1% opacity rectangle is still
"visible" anyway.

Make all objects selectable and make the ability to select behind
objects easier. Make it easier to deal with transparent objects.

Martin

On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 11:35 -0700, mathog wrote:
> In this bug:
>
>    https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1243401
>
> there is a discussion about whether or not the selectable area for a
> text object should include leading and trailing spaces.  That is, for
> text objects 1 = "    " and 2 = "   a b   "
> the old behavior was that the "arrow" or "+A" selection pointers would
> not detect object 1 at all and would move across the leading and
> trailing spaces of object 2 without registering a hit.  The patch in
> that bug makes these pointers treat spaces like any other character.
>
> People were coming down on both sides of the change and ScislaC
> suggested moving that discussion here.  See posts 20-27 for the
> discussion so far.
>
> Regards,
>
> David Mathog
> mathog@...1176...
> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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