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I'd like to subscribe everything Diederik wrote. You see, we agree too much so it's better not to leave us alone in deciding new features... ;) In particular, I'd like to reinforce some of his considerations: - my outdated PC (Pentium IV) still behaves very well with all applications I use (I can't game at work ;), but grasps a bit with Inkscape; I can't live with all snapping options turned on because I either wait for snapping or work... - about controlling what to snap, try snapping a thin and empty circle's center... and what if you need to snap a similar object (thin and void)'s center that has thousands nodes all around? Maybe snapping the center to the grid (!) - for the users I know (me :), drawings can get _very_ complex in terms of objects and nodes count; the possibility of disabling unneeded snapping sources is a need for me, not a wish; - personally I don't like a lot the idea of having different snapping behaviors when I switch tool: if I enabled or not node snapping, I expect it being the same with all tools; and, by the way, why shouldn't it? - I never use bounding box snapping, I always keep it disabled because it always get into the way when I want to snap something else; - the reason for not relying on pressing shift is that if you seldom need some snapping why should you have to press it all other (i.e. most) times?
I don't think "always snapping node-tool knots" will make anybody unhappy
Me : ) And not because I never use it (I almost always have node snapping turned on) but because I don't like the idea of deciding what users need without asking them. And this approach could eventually turn against my use cases on other features.
I agree on the default.svg considerations. I spent a bit of time at the beginning to understand how to configure Inkscape so it starts with options that make sense to me (e.g. units set to mm). Now it turns out it's much powerful because you can start from a known configuration and then save relevant options on each document (I often have them different on different files). Sure it should be made more user friendly. A menu option opening the current default.svg file (or maybe also others, e.g. the default for the currently selected language) could be enough: you open the file (you don't have to know where it is), you change options, save and close it. Done.
Luca
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