On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:19:12PM -0500, MenTaLguY wrote:
We can investigate whether it makes sense to separate them in 0.41, but for now we need to fix the tools etc to treat such objects and layers as immutable, at least as far as the mouse tools are concerned.
Brisgeek was saying that offhand he couldn't think of a situation where he'd want to mark objects as read-only/immutable (other than having the whole diagram be immutable, as in inkview).
Brisgeek and other drawing people, can you think a bit more about this?
To me (as a non-artist) it doesn't seem very useful to prevent modification with the mouse tool of already-selected objects, as it's easy to deselect them if you've just made them insensitve. Whereas it does seem useful to be able to modify things that you've gone to the trouble of selecting despite them being insensitive.
I'd note that it's less work for it to mean merely insensitive rather than insensitive and immutable from mouse tools. I'd suggest that at least for 0.40, we keep it as meaning merely affecting canvas-selectability.
Most drawing applications combine both behaviors (unselectable and immutable) into their notion of "lock".
We'll keep that in mind, though Inkscape's general policy is that we should find the most useful behaviour, and let other programs catch up.
Also note that the layer padlock has nothing to do with the selected objects specifically.
I understand that. The commonness is that both control the sodipodi:insensitive attribute, whether of the selected objects or of the current layer.
pjrm.