On 20/7/09 12:00, LucaDC wrote:
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Well, I've grown to love Ctrl+Click, but I won't bitch about this change even if deleting guides is longer now :)
Yes, deleting guides is longer now, indeed: I always ctrl-click first, then remember it doesn't work anymore and finally press delete... :) I hope I'll get used as quickly as I learned ctrl-click.
One drawback of del is that if you have an object selected, you hover on a guide to delete it but slightly move the mouse just before pressing del, you delete the object. It's so difficoult to highlight a guide being the selection margin so narrow!
While I never really appreciated the new way to delete a guide (I have to reach across the keyboard (laptop) for the <Backspace> key, whereas <Ctrl> is in reach of the resting left hand) now I long for the previous behavior! Many times I accidentally have removed a selected object instead of the to-be-deleted guide - without noticing first, so that I was forced to go through the undo list to discover how far I needed to go back to retrieve the lost object.
Maybe a way to click-select the guide to delete (so the guide remains selected also after you move the mouse away from it) would simplify the operation.
It would not simplify the operation but give the user the necessary feedback which object will be deleted with <DEL>. The color-changing of hovering indicator is too easily overlooked when the mouse cursor is slightly moved before the delete command. For me this seems increasingly like a regression the more often I work with the new (and otherwise fantastically improved!) guides features.
And you could also select many guides (with shift) and delete them all together with a single "del".
seconded.
~suv
p.s. as an interim workaround to delete them all there's the extension 'Remove Guides' at http://screencasters.heathenx.org/blog/2009/06/09/inkscape-extension-remove-guides/ - maybe a candidate to be included in 0.47?