On Mar 28, 2010, at 2:40 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
This way things are consistent with other tools, and more user friendly: people are in general better at specifying position deltas that at specifying an entire movement history. However, it also precludes any sensible use of pressure sensitivity, because pressure sensitive drags cannot be history-free: you want the history of pressure to affect what the final effect will look like. So we can either make pressure-sensitive Alt-dragging the only action that breaks this paradigm, or drop this feature.
No, that's not the only way to do it. Probably those two "all-or-nothing" were the *simplest* ways to do it. But I'm sure much more can be done.
Of course the trick here is to look carefully at the overall codebase and such, so as to not accidentially break something else in adding a new tuned behavior.