Comment 9 for bug 1390244

What I propose exactly is the possibility to use two nodes selected inside a shape as handles to resize and rotate it. After the two nodes are defined every time you drag one of them it acts like a handle to scale and rotate while the other one stay in place and becomes the transformation center.

Of course numeric entries could be interesting too but they are not the most important.

Joining paths and closing is also very interesting but not indispensible. That could be one of the possibilities.