Comment 7 for bug 311828

"~suv wrote on 2009-08-14: > if I have the option "Visual bounding box", selected, I think the Property Bar for Rectangle Tool should display the same size as the Property Bar for Selector Tool

no (caveat: I'm not a developer): see the tool tips for the height and width fields: the select tool controls bar width&height fields respect the bbox setting (they show the width for the selection) whereas the rectangle tool controls bar shows the length of the path segments (and therefor independent of the bbox setting)."

Yes, I know this difference but while from the programmer's point of view this is correct, from the user's point of view this is at least confusing and for sure annoying. Let's focus on scope: what the user wants? He wants to draw a rectangle with a specific size including the size of the stroke as time as he checked "Visual bounding box" because he is working in this way. Am I right?

Let's take a look at the current situation: the user wants a 300x100 mm rectangle including a 4pt stroke size. But he can't obtain this in a single step because what he is drawing is larger that he specified in Rectangle Property Bar. And then, he needs all the time to adjust again the size of a rectangle.

"~suv wrote on 2009-08-14: forgot to ask: what is your setting regarding scaling of stroke width (selector tool toggle on the right end of the controls bar)?"
It is off.