bulia byak wrote:
To everyone who uses snapping in Inkscape:
We plan to make _screen pixels_ (not px units) the default unit for snapping distance, so that e.g. snapping at 5 pixels remains the same distance on screen regardless of zoom.
The question is, do you still need absolute (not zoom-independent) units for specifying snap distance? If so why?
If there are no voices in defence of abs units, we will remove them altogether and use _only_ screen pixels. This will simplify the Doc Prefs dialog and will be generally saner and simpler.
I was recently speaking with someone about snapping. We both had desire to use snapping is such a way that all lines would be snapped to a 1px grid effectively eliminating the anti-aliasing. But we wanted to do this zoomed out to a distance where a 1px grid would not be visible. With your proposed change it would be impossible to force positioning to a grid while zoomed in with out going back to the prefs to set the snap distance. Because the needs of a person doing technical drawings are substantially different that those of someone doing artistic work, I vote for retaining the current behavior as a preference. (And bringing back the ability to snap to invisible gridlines if that isn't currently possible.) Having more options is confusing, but lack of options is sometimes prohibitive.
In a perfect world we could have profiles, where someone would choose icon or art or technical drawing or flyer and get intellegent defaults for snapping et al.
Aaron Spike