Scatter extension shouldn't use spacing of source group

[Lucian]

The Scatter extension has a "If the pattern is a group, pick group members" option. I use this for randomly scattering a selection of tree or mountain path items along a skeleton path. My expectation was that this would pick an item from the original group and place it centred at the next available point along the skeleton path.

What in fact happens is that the items are selected from the original group and then placed offset by their position relative to the original group. You can work around this to some extent by placing all of the source paths centred on top of each other in the original group, but this doesn't work well if the source paths are different sizes, and it is also needlessly inconvenient for the user. You can see the behaviour most clearly if you choose a source path group that has a few paths with large gaps between them.

It will be even more frustrating if #1733229 gets fixed, allowing you to use this extension to scatter clones from the original group - you want the original images spaced out so you can easily edit them if you want to update the clones that have been scattered.

Inkscape 0.92.2 5c3e80d, 2017-08-06 on Arch Linux under Gnome 3

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

I find this is a feature, as it enables me to choose where to place objects along the path.