Add a command to assist editing the path of a text on that path

Bug #1193314 reported by Will Pittenger
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Bug Description

Assume we have a text object on a path. Typically such a path would be a hidden object as you just want the text on a curve. But now, how do you edit that path? I have to use the XML editor to select the object. Instead of that, how about a command in the Text menu, on the Text toolbar, and in the context menu (text objects only, disabled if the item isn't on a path)?

Tags: text ui
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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

What about the existing method (there is no need to resort to the XML Editor)?

Steps:
1) Select the text put on path
2) Press 'Shift+D' to select the path on which the text has been put on
3) switch to node tool ('D') and node-edit at will

See also:
<http://inkscape.org/doc/keys048.html#d0e6035>
<http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Text-Path.html#id1177772>

tags: added: shortcuts text
tags: added: ui
removed: shortcuts
Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Will Pittenger (will-pittenger1) wrote :

Hmm. I forgot about that.

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

It is also mentioned in the status bar if you select a text-put-on-path (i.e. can be discovered without reading the manual, just by following the messages in the interface).

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Will Pittenger (will-pittenger1) wrote :

I now somehow got a document where the path is in defs. Shift-D gives me an error. It probably was placed in defs when I copied a group containing the text object from one document to another.

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