-----Original Message----- From: bulia byak [mailto:buliabyak@...400...] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 16:16 To: Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan) Cc: dicappello@...2144...; inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] node tool testing
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_behavior
and has been the default since.
This is a surprise. Sorry for the misinformation.
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?
When deleting a node from an all-smooth path, two nodes are converted to cusp nodes. I actually thought this was a bug first; it is super annoying. But apparently this is desired behaviour for some users. So no objections anymore, and big thanks for the swap preference!!!
-johan