Tip radius is the distance from the center to the farthest handle. Base radius is the same for closest handle. Can you suggest better terms?
They are OK, but then I can't see why it's called "sharpness". (If someone starts to move the inner handle along a circle, he will possibly be surprised to see the resulting objects have the same "sharpness".)
Right, strictly speaking sharpness also depends on the angular positions of handles - skewed tips are sharper than straight ones with the same radii. However the label must be one word, maximum two, as long explanations won't fit. Please feel free to propose a better one-word term than "sharpness".
I see it now. What I tried was to raise only 1 item of a group (after Ctrl+clicking it), and Inkscape did not raise this item above an ungroupped object -- but this was a bad thing to test with, because Inkscape does not give this message then.
There's no error message because it's not an error - it does in fact moves the selected object within its group. So this may be not what you expected, but it's a successful operation from Inkscape viewpoint, and we don't report on successes (with some exceptions, such as "Document saved.").
The point I was trying to make with all this is that we are talking about "different groups or layers", but those objects do not both have to be in a group, and we have only 1 layer in Inkscape right now. So if you take a root-level, ungroupped object and try to group it with an already groupped single item, then it's strange to receive this message telling that they are from a different group (one of them is ungroupped) or layer (there's no layer).
Right, more correct would be "You cannot raise/lower objects from different groups or layers, or grouped objects together with ungrouped ones", but IMHO it's too wordy, and the part after comma adds nothing really useful for the user, it's kinda implied.
What do others think?
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