Simple polygon does not show nodes

[jlh]

I'm loading this simple SVG file into Inkscape:

<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20px" height="20px">
    <polygon fill="#000000" points="10,7 19,0 12,2" />
</svg>

Resizing and moving the polygon works fine, but I cannot edit the nodes. If I go to the node edit mode (F2) it does not show any node handles to move around. This happens on 0.92.1 on windows 32/64 (both) as well as on 0.91 on linux.

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

confirmed on Windows 10, Inkscape 0.92.1 r15371
confirmed on Windows 10, Inkscape 0.92+devel 15739

[TylerDurden (8thrule)]

AFAIK, shape objects must be converted to path objects to node-edit.

Menu: Path>Object to Path.

[jlh (jlherren)]

Wow, indeed, converting to a path makes it editable. I guess Inkscape just cannot edit polygons directly.

Can this instead be considered a huge UI/UX fail? There's absolutely no hint anywhere as to why this polygon cannot be edited and what should be done in order to make it editable.

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

Well, Inkscape doesn't support creating polygons at all so consequently there's also no UI/tool for it. It's not an "UI/UX fail" but certainly a valid feature request.

See #377982 for the more general request to support editing basic shapes (besides "polygons" also "polylines" and "lines" are affected)

This report can likely be marked as duplicate of bug #171366.