Pen/Pencil: new handles with hard-coded sizes ignore global handle size setting
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Inkscape |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Martin Owens | ||
Bug Description
In rev 14721, the path drawing tools got refactored to increase the handle of the start/end node on hover (in addition to the existing highlighting with red fill). [1]
The current implementation of this new feature relies on two hardcoded handle sizes [2] and thus introduces a UX regression for users who prefer to work with smaller or larger handle sizes [3]: the global preferences setting for handle size is now overridden/reset for the start- and end nodes in the pen/pencil tool context.
Possible solutions to improve the UX for all users, not just those working with the default handle size:
A) Reimplement the new feature with a relative size increase for the on-hover effect, thus respecting the user's preferred handle size as defined in the preferences.
B) Reimplement the new feature as optional (enabled by default) to allow users who value consistent overall handle sizes more to disable the new feature.
References:
[1] Related discussion on inkscape-devel ML:
* Subject: Re: SpinachCon Results
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[2] Hard-coded handle size (7.0/10.0):
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[3] Earlier reports tracking configurable handle sizes:
* Bug #172059 (sf1749840) “handle configuration”
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* Bug #1331967 “Nodes and handles in hidpi screens are too small”
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| Changed in inkscape: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Martin Owens (doctormo) |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Martin Owens (doctormo) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in inkscape: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
| su_v (suv-lp) wrote | #2 |
Should now be fixed, the sizeChanger was refactored into a ctrlResize variable which can be changes by any signal or event and it adds (or removed) size from the calculated table. Fewer checks on selected sizeChanger because we can automatically add ctrlResize integer inline.
see r14761