bulia byak wrote:
Any other objections to the current behavior plus swapping preference?
Yes, both from you:
bulia byak wrote:
Inkscape, with its wonderful "yes you can" mindset, has accommodated both, and it is just so happened historically that one way of use requires a modifier while the other does not. Deciding now that their order of importance is wrong and swapping that modifier would be a very weird thing to do - for Inkscape as a project.
And you are swapping.
bulia byak wrote:
The old behavior was not consistent with selector tool and node transforms. All other constrained rotations snap to 15 deg increments from the original position. It is possible to make a handle horizontal by retracting it and then dragging it out with Shift+Ctrl.
Too much consistency may be bad sometimes.
I agree with you.
If you give me a preference to set and forget, that may be fine. I've already changed and stored so many preferences different than the default ones that one more will not hurt me.
Anyway I still consider this approach conceptually wrong as it's not up to Inkscape's programmers to decide what users should expect when pressing del. So many other programs already exibit a well known behaviour: why should Inkscape introduce a new one? Which clear and wide-accepted improvement does this add?
Regards Luca
P.S.: don't speak about zero length handlers, please, because a segment doesn't have handlers; a curve with a 0 length handler is a straight curve, not a segment; a curve with 0.00001 length handler is an "almost straight" curve, not a "quasi-segment". If you can't understand this you will probably never understand what we are speaking about.