Although I am contributing frequently to the code, for using anything else then basic functionality, I consider myself to be a newbie. To be honest, I never understood the snapping interface, nor in 0.49, nor in 0.48 or in prior releases. I actually always enabled all snap buttons as I did not understand the meaning of the individual buttons.
I have followed this discussion from a distance and is at least partly too technical for me. So here are just my 2 cents: Ask yourself the questions why would your neighbour (who off course uses Inkscape) need a certain button and where would he expect this button in the interface. For a beginner, there are issues with both questions: - in the point of view of a novice user: why at all do the buttons "Snap bounding boxes", "Snap nodes, paths, and handles", "Snap other points (centers, guide origins, gradient handles, etc.)" exist? Without activating these, it is apparently not possible to snap anything. This is confusing for users. - is there a difference between snapping from and snapping to, and do we actually want this difference? (Keep in mind that every user is different from yourself!) A novice user also does not know, or can hardly deduce it from the interface... Look a bit clearer to the user messages: sometimes you have "Snap ... points" in the message, sometimes "Snap to ... points", but either the user messages are named randomly or these buttons seem to be randomly positioned. If it is desirable to have the asymmetric behaviour for part of our user base, then + position the relevant buttons visually well separated from each other. At least by a bar, although a single word in the button bar would greatly help too. + update the user messages accordingly (user messages in 0.48 were not self explaining either) + BUT provide a checkbox to get symmetric behaviour (per Johan)
Regards K.
Op 23 april 2012 19:42 heeft Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...2592...> het volgende geschreven:
On 23-4-2012 11:15, LucaDC wrote:
And sorry again for being dummy but I didn't clearly understand what you would "restore". I've understood that you would like having nodes always snap in node tool but I can't remember having this happen in past releases.
Restore 0.48, 0.47, 0.46, 0.45 behavior. Please check for yourself.
-Johan
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