On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, bulia byak wrote:

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 03:04:23 -0500 From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> To: Inkscape Devel List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: changes keyboard selection commands

I don't really know how the keyboard selection commands should best behave with respect to layers/lockedness/hiddenness, so I decided to make this configurable.

Now there's a "Selecting" tab in Preferences which has three checkboxes that affect "Select all" (Ctrl+Shift+A) as well as selecting by Tab/Shift+Tab:

Shouldn't "Select All" be Ctrl+A or was that a typo?

Wasn't Ctrl+Shift+A being used to raise the Align and Distribute Dialog?

Is this page out of date? http://inkscape.org/doc/keys.html

• select only in current layer

That is how Dia does it, it does seem like the most sensible thing to do.

• ignore hidden objects

• ignore locked objects

By default all three are on, which is the most natural setting, but it's different from the behavior in the past and may not be the most convenient.

So long as you dont create any layers the behaviour will seem the same, only those who want to use layers will need to face this extra complexity which they should be well able to deal with.

Experiement and report which works best for you.

I'll give it a try.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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