Comment 2 for bug 1806815

Hi Tyler,

Snapping works best when it the movement required for the snapping is rather small. When the movement is too big, your object would snap over a long distance, making a large jump. This is very unintuitive for the user, and would likely not result in the desired snapping. The settings you mentioned are exactly for this purpose.

This is however independent of the grids, it should also work like this when no grids are present. That is, when "always snap" is enabled, it would always snap to something if it can. Grids or no grids. It's just that in the case a grid is present, snapping to that grid is likely the closest solution Inkscape can find, because there is always some grid line or intersection near. Closer than any other object. So it might appear that "Always snap" means "Always snap to grid intersections", but that is not really the case.

Best regards,

Diederik