-----Original Message----- From: bulia byak [mailto:buliabyak@...400...] Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 17:04 To: LucaDC Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] node tool testing
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:54 AM, LucaDC <dicappello@...2144...> wrote:
Will the above suggestion - do not extend handles if there's no curvilinearity in the result - work for you?
Unfortunately not. What I (only me?) need is the old
behaviour so when
you delete a node from a rectangle it becomes a triangle. Now the _only_ way to have this (which I consider a very intuitive and expected result) is using ctrl-del.
But it's still possible, by only one extra key :)
I'm not trying to imply that your usage scenarios are not realistic. They are. I'm just trying to show that the other scenarios are realistic too. Inkscape, with its wonderful "yes you can" mindset, has accommodated both, and it is just so happened historically that one way of use requires a modifier while the other does not. Deciding now that their order of importance is wrong and swapping that modifier would be a very weird thing to do - for Inkscape as a project. However, for a specific user it would be natural, and as much as I hate adding prefs, I would not object to placing a "Swap behavior of Del and Ctrl+Del" checkbox in Node tool prefs. Will that work for you (and others)?
Historically, rectangle->triangle deletion was implemented first, and has been under the normal delete button without modifier for quite a while. Now in trunk we got an added feature of deletion while 'maintaining' shape. Since it has not been released yet, there is no real history of having both features, so the discussion on which one is most important isn't very weird to me. I understand that different people have different preferences, but changing behavior from one version to the next should be for a good reason. A preference setting would work for me. I vote for the default setting to be 0.47 behaviour. New users won't know that there is a way to change the Del behaviour; with 'maintain shape' as default I think all people I know will scream and run back to whatever program they used before ;)
Ciao, Johan