Alright, I've made a bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/933928

Now that you mention it, you're right, the bug also shows up with Pattern along Path and such.

While we're on the topic of powerstroke, I'd like to suggest having multiple styles of powerstroke available from the drop-down, which means users wouldn't need to open the LPE dialogue at all. This means different end styles, different cusp node styles etc.

I'm at a loss as to how they'd be named though. Maybe we can at least have a "rounded" (rounded edges, rounded for cusp nodes) and a "sharp" shape (everything sharp, a bit like for thin calligraphic strokes).

Thanks for the tip by the way! I'm going for a different style, but it's useful.

Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:51:07 +0100 From: Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...2592...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Powerstroke requests To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <4F3D5E2B.2050701@...2592...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

On 26-1-2012 16:59, Valerie wrote:

Weird behavior to report:

1. Make a powerstroke (example: triangle in)
2. Make a duplicate (ctrl+D)
3. Move some of the nodes of the second powerstroke
4. Modify the width of the second powerstroke

Behavior: the width of the first powerstroke gets modified as well.

This does not happen if you select and move the second powerstroke with F1 before modifying its width. This does not happen with ctrl+C.

This is a more general bug that duplicating does not fork LPEs. There is a setting for forking behaviour for gradients, so I will have to add it for LPEs too. Perhaps if I forget about it too long, you can add a bug report about it and assign it to me...

I was trying to trying to do easy eyelashes by making one powerstroke the shape I wanted, duplicating it, moving the end slightly and modifying the width slightly (to have a bit of variety). I was also trying to do some sketchy effects with the same method.

You can also do eyelashes with the stitch sub-paths effect (and paste an eyelash shape as stitch path). But then you cannot do width variations... perhaps a good addition to stitch sub-paths LPE...

Cheers,   Johan*******************