Advanced tutorial: bug or tutorial that needs update?

[Hachmann]

Linked offsets:

Finally, note how moving or transforming the source moves all offset objects linked to it, and how you can move or transform the offset objects independently without losing their connection with the source.

(moving the source path of a linked offset does not move the offsets)

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Unfortunately it's a bit more complicated. The tutorial was right with Inkscape <0.48.3, but a fix for Bug #184341 (Linked offsets ignore clone movement preferences) changed the offsets behavior.

The linked offsets still move with the source if you change the default preferences for the clones:
 Edit > Preferences > Behavior > Clones:
   Moving original: clones and linked offsets:
   [ ] Move in parallel
   [x] Stay unmoved (default)
   [ ] Move according to transform

As explained in Bug #1131083 (Linked offset doesn't follow its source with default preferences), clones and linked offset should behave differently and thus have independent preferences.

I'm going to investigate how hard it would be to fix Bug #1131083 before we decide to change the documentation.

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

Thanks, jazzynico!

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Bug #1131083 seems to be a bit too hard for me to fix.

Do you think we should fix the documentation? Maybe we could just comment the obsolete part (in case we need it again in the next version)?

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

Thank you for looking into this, jazzynico.

As the separation between clones' and linked offsets' behaviour has been categorized a wishlist item, your suggestion sounds good to me (if it had been categorized as a bug, I wouldn't have wanted to change the documentation).

Find patch attached.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Patch applied to inkscape-docs, rev. 543.
Thanks!

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

It seems this is the last tutorial update. So we can now warn translators that the tutorials and the keys and mouse reference need their help. Hurrah!

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

:D Yay! (website hasn't been updated yet, unfortunately, so pointing people there will give them (slightly) outdated info, probably not relevant for most languages...)

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

All tutorials updated in the 0.92.x branch (rev. 15047) and trunk (rev. 15079).