Snap to rotation center of a group doesn't work
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inkscape |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Diederik van Lierop | ||
Bug Description
Cannot snap to a rotation center of a group. We always snap to the rotation center of the individual objects in the group. I believe that things were implemented like this on purpose, but we might need to revisit that.
"Snapping to":
For a group, would we prefer to snap to:
- the rotation center of the individual objects -> is usually quite obvious where this is located, but might produce to many snap targets
- the rotation center of the group -> might not be always clear where this is located for the user; can be outside the objects
- or to both? -> might lead to to many snap targets for large groups
Same holds for the snapping to the item center.
"Snapping from":
Appears to be inconsistent; for rotation centers we use the rotation center of the group, but for item centers we use the center of the individual objects
| Changed in inkscape: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Diederik van Lierop (mail-diedenrezi) |
| su_v (suv-lp) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in inkscape: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
On 2016-01-31 20:01 (+0100), Diederik van Lierop wrote:
> Cannot snap to a rotation center of a group. We always snap to the
> rotation center of the individual objects in the group. I believe
> that things were implemented like this on purpose, but we might need
> to revisit that.
Confirmed that Inkscape never had a different implementation so far: same behavior with Inkscape 0.47, 0.48.5, 0.91 and current trunk (0.91+devel r14627) - snapping with a group's rotation center e.g. to a guide anchor works, but not snapping an arbitrary object/snap source to the rotation center of an arbitrary group underneath the current cursor position.