Comment 3 for bug 1780775

Apparently, the "Auto node handle" message is relevant, and correct, in the case that the node type is actually "auto-smooth", where dragging the control handle really does convert the node type to "smooth".

However, the same message is displayed when the mouse hovers over the control handle, regardless of node type, and for cusp, smooth, and symmetric nodes, it is highly misleading. Even for auto-smooth nodes, it should read "auto-smooth node handle: ..."

In the case of cusp nodes, it might be appropriate to display a message about control-handle locking for conversion to smooth or symmetric, and for smooth nodes, about conversion to symmetric. I was not previously aware of this supposed feature; it does not seem to be documented anywhere except the keyboard command reference, so this would be a useful way to make users aware of it.

But this should only be done when the control-handle locking function works properly, as it currently does not.