On Wednesday 05 May 2004 03:03, inkscape-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:

How would you accomplish this in a way that would be intuitive, yet not easy to do accidentally? If I read right, you're tired of Shift Clicking 2 Objects and then using Union? I'm not sure how you would accomplish this in a way that's not going to be frustrating for someone who might do it unintentionally.

Explain further? Why don't you submit a patch so we can play around with it?

Dan Ostrowski

Yup... Basically I am thinking at this stage that an a new Context be created (Composite tool). By default a small circle would be created. When a drag action is happening there would be a reasonably lange yellow border around it to indicate that it is not a normal shape. Shapes droped into the Yellow zone would Union with the shape or subtract if a modifier key was pressed inside the drop zone.