On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, bulia byak wrote:
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:49:17 -0300 From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> Reply-To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Rotating objects
On 7/30/05, Alan Horkan <horkana@...3...> wrote:
I commented that probably the best way to do this would be to require users to group shapes if they wanted them to be rotated as a group and the requested behaviour would be the default.
NO. I strongly disagree. This will break so many user's basic expectations - it will be a disaster.
It is not ideal but I think the messing required to have both types of rotation any other way will be even worse. It might be better not to implement the suggestions all, I think we have a case of conflicting requirements.
For what it is worth OpenOffice.org Draw rotates all objects in selection as one big group and doesn't seem to provide any other way to rotate.
Depending on what exactly the user wants there may well be a workaround using Symbols/Clones, tranforming the original and having the others follow but I dont know Clones well enough.
- Alan