On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:51:49 -0500, Lou Quillio <public@...758...> wrote:
- Grid/guide display and snap distance settings are document-level prefs, which is expected. Snap toggling is also a document pref. That's unusual. It takes five clicks to toggle snapping and return to work.
It would not be logical to have these settings separate. Besides the # and | keys toggle BOTH snapping and visibility.
- Initial snap distance is so fine (0.4000px) that the snapping action is imperceptible, which gives the impression it's not working.
That's indeed a problem, and I've been planning to fix it by making the snap distance specifiable in screen pixels, i.e. the same in _visible_ length but different _absolute_ length depending on zoom. I think it would make much more sense.
However this would only be possible to do in combination with snapping only to the visible grid lines (some of them become invisible as you zoom out), as I proposed here long ago. I still think it's the best approach, though some people objected (frankly I don't remember their arguments, though I remember not being convinced by them :) and so I shelved this idea. What's the current opinion of people?