Add Snap Angle 5 degree

[Reptorian]

Why can I not snap to 5 degree? 5 is one of the most common angle to work with, and the angles that are possible within 5 are 5, 10, 15, 20, 25,30,35,45,50,55,60.... Nothing more to say here.

[Mc (mc...)]

Well, indeed.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/commit/5de2ce4701a004ff4f6163c4f4fb0ea4c405e821

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

I know it's not a bug fix, but - could this be backported? It's something nice and small :)

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

Backporting sounds straightforward.

We might want to consider replacing the hardcoded values with a combo box with entry though:
https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm-tutorial/stable/sec-comboboxentry.html.en

I assume there will always be some number we did not add which somebody might find useful (it seems the present list is already a result of that ;-) )

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

YES! (had that idea, too, but thought it wasn't possible due to some restriction - so it does not really need to add up to 360 with an integer number of steps?)

[Reptorian (reptillia-39)]

I'm with the combo box idea. There might be people who might want to put in values other than what's listed.

[Reptorian (reptillia-39)]

Actually, I have a better idea, can we have such a combo box that it'll be easily accessible within Inkscape window without going into preference?

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

Can someone from the devs comment on the '360° needs to be divisible by the number' thing? Is that a hard requirement for some reason, or is it just there because it makes the most sense (I tend to agree, because that way, you have a way to return to a fixed state - but people who change it to something that doesn't fit might also be able to add the numbers up themselves....)

I think it should stay in the preferences. How often do you need to change that setting? The transform dialog provides a similar functionalty, hitting apply repeatedly makes 'steps'.

[Mc (mc...)]

the value stored in the prefs is currently an integer that is "180°/angle" but it can be changed to a float, there are just 2 dozen places where to fix it.