On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:24 AM, <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> wrote:
Historically, rectangle->triangle deletion was implemented first, and has been under the normal delete button without modifier for quite a while.
Yes but:
Now in trunk we got an added feature of deletion while 'maintaining' shape.
no, this behavior is very old too, it was added in 0.44:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.44#New_deletion_beha...
and has been the default since.
What changed in the trunk is just one special case of this, making this behavior more general and consistent, not relying on the unreliable status of the segment. Just think: with handle of 0px you get one behavior, with handle of 0.000001px you get a quite different behavior - that can't be right!
And since it turned out that some users in fact have been relying on this inconsistency, we are giving them a preference switch, by using which they will be able to always (again, independently of any microscopic handles!) get the no-approximation behavior on Del. For them it should work even better than before.
Any other objections to the current behavior plus swapping preference?