Comment 6 for bug 246028

Recent builds have some snapping settings already in the preferences. We might move more of them there, if deemed logical. We could move the snap sensitivity there as you suggested, but this parameter is closely related to the "always snap" option in the document properties as you can see. When one really wants everything exactly on grid, then one would use the "always snap" button. But I guess no one would use that for each and every document, so this must be document specific. And that's why the sensitivity must also be document specific ("always snap" basically is just a sensitivity of 10000 px). Well, at least that's the current situation, we could decouple the "always snap" from the sensitivity. It would only require some effort, it's not like it cannot be done or that it would be very hard.

With respect to your last paragraph: currently you will find your first button in the tab with the grid properties, where you can toggle the snapping per grid (you can have multiple grids these days). Your second button is our current "always snap" button, but only named differently. So this would basically boil down to moving the sensitivity sliders to the preferences, which brings me back to what I've described above.

Admittedly, the more I think of it, the more I tend to favour your idea.....

The toolbar buttons are still on my to-do list. So far I've been mainly working on the snapping internals, but the UI will be next. Looking forward to that :-)