Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape can be extremely frustrating
Am 31.08.2018 um 00:55 schrieb C R:
- I can set the fill and stroke gradient for a group just fine (in both
master and 0.92.x), what are the cases in which this doesn't work?
Try this:
Make some circles
group them
select the group
Apply a fill gradient and a stroke gradient
Click into the group and add another circle.
exit the group and try to apply the gradient again.
- Yes, this doesn't update newly added elements, if you're trying to
apply a new gradient to the group.
I've never tried it this way. I just noticed I intuitively go via flat
fill, to 'reset' all gradients for the group first.
Result: the new circle's gradients are unaffected by the
group's gradient.
Now, erase all the circles int he group and add another circle in the group.
The gradient no longer affects anything in the group.
See why its better to select objects in the group and set the gradient
rather than set the gradient on the entire group? :)
Tested this in 0.92.3, which is the only version of Inkscape which
currently works on Ubuntu 18.04 sadly. :(
Your suggested change can make some actions take a lot longer, because
one needs to select only objects that have a stroke in a group, to
change their stroke width.
The behaviour doesn't seem any different to me... in the case of
selecting the group, all shapes strokes are changed, and the same goes
for if you click into the group and hit ctrl+a, then perform the same opp.
Maybe showing me what you mean at the hackfest will shed some light on
it for me. :)
- It's not all the objects I want to change visibly, just those with a
stroke. If there are some in the group that don't have one, I'm adding a
stroke for those with ctrl+a, and then applying your suggested way of
changing stroke width.
Using 0.92.3, and the problem exists there. It has for me for as long as
I've been using Inkscape.
Steps to reproduce:
start Inkscape
draw a circle
adjust outline to 3mm (breaks, resetting value to 0.000 if stroke paint
is set to none)
Set stroke paint to "none"
Inkscape tosses out the 3mm stroke width you just entered, and you can
not change it from 0.000 unless you add back stroke paint.
- It doesn't do that for me in 0.92.x. I can set the stroke width no
matter if the stroke is 'none' or not (well, if unset, it doesn't work),
and it also doesn't remove the stroke width when I set stroke to none.
For groups, I get the behaviour you describe, this could be a bug - but
I don't observe it for single circles.
Maybe there's a difference in our preferences files causing this? (and
in mine for master, too).
Or this has been fixed since the 0.92.3 release. And broke again for
master :) Maybe we can shed some light on this together later.
Maren
This is how it has been ever since I first started using Inkscape,
and
persists today.
-C
I think these are bugs. This can't be intentional...
Maren
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