Op Ma, 16 februari, 2009 01:47, schreef Krzysztof Kosiński:

Diederik van Lierop wrote:

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Already implemented. Please select "only snap the node closest ..." in the prefs.

This is great! Why isn't it on the snapping toolbar though? I didn't find it at first because I assumed that most of the snapping options will be on the

I didn't want to put everything in the toolbar, because that would be way too much. Currently only the per-document snapping options are in the snap toolbar, and the prefs are not. Maybe we could just add a button to quickly open the preferences dialog, defaulting to the snapping tab? That would make them more easy to discover.

toolbar. Also of note is that the snapping options from the toolbar are not present in the prefs dialog - not very intuitive if e.g. someone disables the toolbar to conserve screen space like I do.

They used to be available in the document properties dialog, but it was difficult not make a mess of it using only checkboxes. Now we've got icons, we could use these in the document properties dialog too, but I do not like duplicating functionality (and code) unless really badly needed.

Another thing is that the visualization of the snapping isn't best - while hovering over e.g. a rectangle, there is no indication of which node will snap when I drag the rectangle - it only appears when I start dragging, and it isn't clear what this little circle means.

We could indeed use some better graphics here, I just chose one from stock. The cross (displayed after snapping) is not very noticeable either.

The best thing to do would be to display text over the node that will snap (e.g. "corner", "midpoint", etc.) while the user hovers the select tool over the selected shape, and a similar text when

I think text would be a bit too intrusive, but it would indeed be useful to display what will snap in advance.

However, those are just small usability glitches. Again, thanks for this incredible feature!

Thanks. You're welcome!

Regards,

Diederik