On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:12:54AM -0400, bulia byak wrote:
To everyone who uses snapping in Inkscape:
We plan to make _screen pixels_ (not px units) the default unit for snapping distance, so that e.g. snapping at 5 pixels remains the same distance on screen regardless of zoom.
The question is, do you still need absolute (not zoom-independent) units for specifying snap distance? If so why?
If there are no voices in defence of abs units, we will remove them altogether and use _only_ screen pixels. This will simplify the Doc Prefs dialog and will be generally saner and simpler.
It's difficult to say without actually playing with it, but I use snapping a LOT, so this change has a chance of either really improving Inkscape or making snapping an even bigger PITA. ;-) But I *think* this sounds like it will make it work more intuitively.
Bryce