On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Donn wrote:
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] I'd prefer guides per layer
IMO a much better improvement of the guides would be colored guides, so they could be distinguishable.
And add to that, guide-layers such that shapes draw become guides : any angle and shape.
Making guides that much more complicated and overloaded is not a good idea and I merged or closed various requests of that nature. Guides that complicated would be self defeating and ultimately perspective grids would be much more useful for creating complex techincal drawings. Thankfully our request tracker groups all requests for Guides and Grids together in one category. Corel has some interesting implementations of various kinds of advanced grids. Products such as Microsoft Visio will temporarily show blue lines while drawing to help show things like a 45 degree angle, but these features are quite seperate from Guides which remain as basic and simple as they have always been.
There are so many different ways to do these things it is vitally important to ask why, as Thorsten did (try to be as polite as possible though). With a particular problem in mind it makes it possible to streamline a process and avoid adding yet anothe option. Understanding the underlying problem and being aware of the approaches other projects have taken allows the Inkscape developers to pick and choose from the best ideas already out there and then do things even better, so screenshots and detailed descriptions with bug reports can be very helpful.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://www.linkedin.com/in/alanhorkan