bulia byak wrote:
AFIAR Freehand is using Ctrl-C for clone and Ctrl-D for duplicate.
Ctrl+C does not Copy?! They likely have not read HIG :)
maybe, it was Ctrl-Shift-C and Ctrl-Shift-D, I honestly do not remember, now I am using Inkscape instead and Freehand does not run in Linux/x86 anyway (http://www.codeweavers.com/site/compatibility/browse/name?app_id=121)
BTW Is there a key for making a clone while moving an object (duplicate works with space)?
Not yet, but I thought about enabling space to leave clones, not duplicates.
Yes that would make sense as default, but there should still be a key for producing duplicates instead of clones (like when you want to copy a draft that you want to change in different ways)
[...] and second, clones will be moved in sync with the original, and therefore the chain of clones will behave almost like a stroke.
Is this behavior optional? I could think of many use cases where one only wants the shape to be in sync, not the placement. But maybe a user could put the originals on a special layer that is locked and invisible and thus have the same functionality?
This is not easy to implement, thoough, because currently clones may behave in a rather counterintuitive (although perfectly standard-compliant) ways when the clone is scaled/rotated and the original is then moved, or when both original and clone are selected and moved together. I will try to program special treatment for these situations so they behave more intuitively.
Sounds good. But this is really not that easy.
Regards, Helge