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> The behavior for constrained snapping should have been improved now
@Diederik -- another question, slightly off-topic for this report maybe (but related constrained snapping and to the recent topic in inkscape-devel -- [fixed] regression for paraxial mode):
When testing the restored paraxial mode in trunk, I noticed a basic difference in snapping behavior compared to previous Inkscape 0.47:
When drawing paraxial lines in Inkscape 0.47 it is possible to 'snap' to a point outside the orthogonal restriction/
In Inkscape 0.48 and current trunk, only the actual position of the next node is snapping i.e. if the constrained orthogonal path direction doesn't happen to cross a snap target, no snapping / aligning of the next corner is possible. IMHO this reduces the usability of the paraxial mode (only closing a path by clicking on the start node works as expected and uses the x- or y-component when inserting the last corner before closing).
Is it possible to restore the old behavior (take x- or -y-coordinate from snapped point under the cursor, not from the node position along the constrined path segment) without breaking other use cases of constrained snapping?
Test case:
1) draw a diagonal line, deselect it
2) set 'Snap nodes and handles' and 'Snap to cusp nodes'
3) draw a path in paraxial mode that complements the diagonal with an orthogonal corner (path with 2 segments):
- first click snaps to start node,
- click twice snapping to the end node of the diagonal path.
4) <enter> or right-click to finish the second path
-> works in 0.47 (yes, the first node in the bézier tool doesn't yet snap in 0.47, but that's fixed in 0.48 ;) ),
-> in 0.48+devel r9850 the end node of the diagonal is not used/seen as snap target at all
Tested with 0.47, 0.48 and 0.48+devel r9850 on OS X 10.5.8; default preferences and default A4 template without grid enabled.