Comment 15 for bug 814457

Some quick notes (despite that I did recommend to close the report) - when I have it sorted out in more detail, I'll give feedback on the mailing list <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/37130>:

Diederik van Lierop wrote:
> I should just remove snapping of image corners completely from Inkscape?

No. (Please do not further reduce snapping features ;) ) Having to create a rectangle, remove its stroke, copy image and paste size on rectangle , center-align image and rectangle with 'Align&distribute', lower rectangle below image, group the two, to be then able to position a just imported bitmap image with the mouse by snapping it to guides, or the pixel grid (essential e.g. for export to bitmap to avoid blurring of the imported bitmap image and its edges) - repeated each time after importing or pasting a bitmap image from the clipboard? Please don't remove the snapping of image corners! (And no, usually I do not want to convert each import bitmap image into a pattern…)

~suv wrote:
> There appear to be certain node snapping sources/targets
> which are always active now and can't be toggled off
(…)
> My question: is this intentional? Could corners and
> quadrant points be covered by cusp and smooth nodes

A few hours of working with current builds later, I realize that I should have requested the opposite: In the select tool, please make nodes of dragged objects snap to path, to grid, to guides, to object/rotation centers etc. independent again - without requiring to have (cusp) nodes as active snap _targets_ as well.

The reduction of snap options [1] starts to interfere with my usual workflow (if I get around to work on my own documents): suddenly I have to zoom in much closer and then back out again far more often than I'm used to (which is a pain because the zoom history is currently is broken), and I even caught myself inserting temp layers above the current layer to be able to quickly hide/unhide objects whose nodes interfere when trying to drag other objects and snap their nodes e.g. to grid, or to guides, or rotation centers, or smooth nodes only, or midpoint of lines only - in regions where several objects overlap, with plenty of cusp nodes around. (Hiding objects of course is often not an option - if I want to snap to path (but not cusp nodes) or to midpoints of line segments or moved rotation centers but not cusp corners of that object etc.).

ISTM that earlier - before [1] - that it was a lot easier to selectively snap with precision (and max. control over what snaps to what). I start missing it ;)

[1] the distinction between snap sources and snap targets was removed