Comment 2 for bug 1262448

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

<opinion>

> Another solution:
> The same way as when two horizontal or vertical nodes
> are selected, the unusable transform handles
> (corner or long side scale handles and all four skew handles)
> are hidden until the line is rotated.
>
> 6. pick the node editing tool
> 7. turn on "Show Transform Handles"
> 8. select 2 nodes on a horizontal line,
> (…)

Related:
- Bug #590260 “[Node tool] Skew transformation handles missing for x- or y-aligned nodes”
  <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/590260>

Personally, I'm not really satisfied with such a solution: simply omitting transformation handles removes functionality. For the node tool, this for example negatively affects multi-path node-editing, where it is not unreasonable (nor impossible) to have a selection of multiple nodes which are aligned vertically or horizontally and which one needs to skew.
</opinion>