I don't have anything against the changes :-)

For me the question is how could we help the user with some info about how remediate to the results of these changes onto the filters behaviour. Perhaps the manual could be a good place to tell that something has changed after the 0.91 release and to explain the workaround (how to change the templates). Personnally I learned a lot of interesting things about filters in the manual, like the numeral settings in color matrix to simulate greyscale.

But that cannot avoid that new users of the future releases could be discouraged by the apparent lack of precision of many filters which include numerical inputs based on units.

ivan


Le Mercredi 4 mai 2016 15h17, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> a écrit :


On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 12:49 +0000, Ivan Louette wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could it be possible to discuss this bug before 0.92 release
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1429591
>
> It's evidently linked to changes in the units area after 0.91.

This is more due to changing the units inside the template files.
Setting the "user unit" to 1mm in metric based templates and 1in in
inch based templates seemed like a good idea but I am wondering if it
would be better to keep the "user unit" set to 96 per "physical" inch.

It would be very difficult to make all the "built-in" filters give the
same behavior with different values for the "user unit" (all the
relevant filter primitives would need to be adjusted).


> Fortunately a workaround exists (it's described inside), but without
> any info users could be very disappointed when applying filters
> linked to units.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> ivan