Comment 13 for bug 1822906

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eelik (eelik) wrote :

Forget what I said in comment #11, I didn't understand how these work. Now it makes sense and the functionality is good. But my misunderstanding tells something about the ease-of-learning.

It's very difficult to find short but descriptive texts which would remove all misunderstandings. The menu items should have to levels, like:

Align horizontally using this item's
    -> bottom edge
    -> top edge
    -> center
Align vertically using this item's
    -> left edge
etc.

But that would be very clumsy and maybe impossible to translate to some languages.

Using Copy command's reference selection would at least be explicit, although it would introduce an extra step which would be unnecessary for this command. Note that for Copy command the RMB click point can't be used because there's Edit->Copy main menu item which can't have that click point. If we want consistency between different functions, "select reference afterwards" seems to be the only solution.