Pen/pencil: nodes from different subpaths can't be connected

[dcberg]

Draw two paths with a pen
Combine them
Use the freehand or bezier tool to connect the ends of the different
paths.

Expected: The nodes of the ends are highlighted when coming close and one
gets only one node, if one stops when highlighted.

Actual: Works with the starting node, but not the end node of the line
you're drawing to conntect the two lines.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Originator: NO

Confirmed on Gentoo Linux. The first node gets connected, the second does
not.

This is in contrast to what happens when you do the following: Draw a 'C'
shaped line using the pen. Now draw a line connecting the two endpoints of
the 'C'. Resultant path is a complete connected path as expected, with
three nodes.

[John Cliff (johncliff)]

Confirmed in SVN.

[Brynn (brynn4inks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello,
I just wanted to add my experience. I recently reported this at InkscapeForum.com (http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7453), where ~suv informed me that it is a bug. (And I see that it is rather an old one :-( )

I'm using Inkscape 0.48 stable release on Windows 7, 64-bit.

I think subpaths of the same compound path should be able to be connected, to form one single path.

Thank you very much :-)
Brynn

[Brynn (brynn4inks-deactivatedaccount)]

Darn, I wish comments could be editted.

I meant:
I think subpaths of the same compound path should be able to be connected, to form one single path, with the pen or pencil tool.

[Beluga (buovjaga)]

Repro. Same result with start and end nodes. They are not really connected, but can be pulled away.

Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5
Inkscape 0.92pre1 15073 (GTK3)

[Brynn (brynn4inks-deactivatedaccount)]

I've been focusing on migrating only the bugs I've reported myself. But I found this in my profile (I guess because I replied to it) and decided it's simple enough that I can migrate it. Plus being so old, I wanted to make sure it gets migrated.

I tested on 1.0 alpha, and can still reproduce it.

Moved to: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/686

Closed by https://gitlab.com/brynn