Comment 7 for bug 379817

One cannot expect users to dramatically change the way they do simple operations, such as the one described above. Furthermore, you cannot expect them to change twice (once from 0.46 to 0.47, and then back again from 0.47 to 0.48).

Autosmooth might be a workaround in some cases, but certainly not in all... I personally rarely use autosmooth, because it doesn't do what I want - it must be the way I "design" things.

In my understanding, a "tool" should keep consistent behaviour across versions. Because most users (including me), don't even "think" when they draw... they've been used to a behaviour since 0.45 or maybe before...

Regards.