Moving a shape while drawing it with Alt

[Richardo]

The ellipse tool in Inkscape is nice, but it lacks a
feature that I like in GIMP's ellipse select.

When selecting an elliptical region in GIMP, it works
very similarly to the ellipse tool in Inkscape, but in
GIMP, when holding down the ALT-key when selecting an
ellipse, it translates the ellipse according to mouse
movement.

In Inkscape, however, once you start drawing an
ellipse, you cannot change the origin you set for it.
If the origin of the ellipse is not quite correct when
you start drawing the shape, you will have to modify it
after drawing it. It ends up in a frustrating
resize-translate-resize until you're satisfied.

The selection tools in the GIMP are very similar to
Inkscape's shape tools, except that the functions of
CTRL and SHIFT keys are the opposite. In Inkscape,
there is no function for the ALT key, and it could be
used the way it is used in the GIMP.

This could be applied to other shape tools too.

[Hystrix (hystrix-)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this.
At the time all modifiers are used: Alt lets you change the radius, Ctrl lets you draw perfect circles and Shift allows you to make your starting point be the at the center of the ellipse. I think it also makes sense to use this keys combined in certaint cases so using a combination of them for the function you describe wouldn't be a good idea either.
Please, if this is still an issue for you comment on how it could be implemented.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Related feature request:
Bug #1045395 “circle tool should have a move handle”
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1045395>

[grey tomorrow (gtomorrow)]

Hi - thanks for reporting this bug, I've manually migrated it to Inkscape's new bug tracker on GitLab, and closed it here.

Please feel free to file new bugs about the issues you're seeing at
https://inkscape.org/report .

Moved to: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/3698
Closed by: https://gitlab.com/greytomorrow