On 12/8/06, MenTaLguY <mental@...32...> wrote:
I think some things (e.g. selection outlines) should probably always use the visual bbox. But the line between "technical" and "artistic" can be very fine. Even if we ignore technical users, there are artistic users (including myself) who sometimes require geometric bounds -- tiling is one of the most common cases, but there are others as well.
We need to have a better solution in those situations, because there, the lack of geometric bounds isn't just annoying, it's debilitating. I just wish I knew what that solution was. :/
I can change it back, but I don't want to get back all the problems we had with no-stroke bboxes, and I don't really want to introduce a user option which will be hard to explain to the user and a maintenance burden. On the other hand, we now have an even worse option in Options
Tools > Selector > Default scale origin, which is highly obscure and
rather buggy. It seems to me that if we add a "bounding box includes stroke" option we'll be able to get rid of that "default scale origin" which is a good thing in itself.
It would be still better to find a compromise which would work for everyone and therefore not require an option. Suggestions are welcome. Please also consider that we now have blur, and in at least some cases, it makes perfect sense to include the blur margin in the bbox too.