Comment 8 for bug 459811

I see these differences (on osx):
0.46: the arc setting sticks for the next ellipse created
0.47: the arc setting is only available for the currently selected ellipse, but unavailable for new ellipses which default to full circle

There obviously was a change in the behavior of the ellipse tool - be it intentional or not. But that's not the problem Khorf describes… he sees the sticky behavior of 0.46 in 0.47pre4 and can't even reset it to full circle again (AFAIU).