[Inkscape-user] Inconsistent behaviour?

People,

If I create a few objects - rectangles and ellipses - and then select the whole group and rotate it - these two operations behave differently - they should do the same thing?:

1. Clicking on the "Rotate 90 Clockwise" tool button

2. Clicking "]" six times

- (2) does what I want - (1) appears to be rotating the individual objects?

Thanks,

Phil.