objects lose selection after undoing some operations

[Bug Importer]

They should keep focus after undoing any modifications
to them.

[ScislaC (scislac)]

I just tried what was said, and it still kept focus...
didn't matter if it was one object or more, grouped or not.
Is there a particular circumstance that causes this? or
perhaps it has just been fixed since .39 was released.

[Buliabyak-users (buliabyak-users)]

The only case where it loses selection on undo is when you
undo an object deletion. The resurrected object is then not
selected. I'm not sure we really need to fix this.

[Piersvdt (piersvdt)]

When you undo a simplify action the selection is also lost,
this is very frustrating because i always simplify too much
and then undo it until it's right.

[Bug Importer (bug-importer)]

I am using version 0.45 on Kubuntu Feisty and confirm selecting several
objects then attempting to: path > difference|intersection|etc *then*
undoing the operation results in me losing my selections. I have to then
reselect all objects to try another operation. not sure how deep this issue
may get but I see it following the step I mentioned.

[Troy James Sobotka (troy-sobotka)]

Applies to the calligraphy contour etching tool as well.

Reproduction: Create a path using the calligraphy tool. This object will be selected. Press CTRL to engage the contour button and trace alongside the stroke. Undo. The object prior to the contour action attempt should be selected, however it is not.

Version: Inkscape 0.46+devel, built May 14 2008

[John Curwood (marketing-lovinglearning)]

I've had this bug on the Tweak tool.

Reproduction: Select the object I want to tweak and then move to the tweak tool, I make a change and
then click on undo. When I try to tweak the object again, nothing happens, I switch back to the selector tool and find out that the selection has been lost.

Note: If I have made several changes using the tweak tool, the selection still remains until I undo back to the first change made after switching to the tweak tool.

Version: Inkscape 0.46+devel, built Oct 10 2009

[Beluga (buovjaga)]

Regarding comment 3: reproduced lost selection after undoing simplify.

Regarding comment 4: reproduced lost selection after undoing difference.

Regarding comment 5: after using calligraphy, the object is not selected. Perhaps this is by design, but it makes the case obsolete.

Regarding comment 6: I can tweak after an undo just fine.

Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5
Inkscape 0.92pre1 15054 (GTK3)

[Plecto Rincus (plecto)]

The problem is still there in Inkscape 0.92 on Mac OSX.
Undoing any operation on a set of objects causes loosing the selection available before applying the operation. I find it very annoying as very often work is a trial and error process.

[mray (mrayyyy)]

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 http://inkscape.org/report.

Moved to: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/347
Closed by: https://gitlab.com/mray