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  1. Bug #1318221
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 1318221

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Antonio Ospite (ospite) wrote : Re: Set the center of rotation to the center of the small enclosing circle

I think there is some confusion going on here.

The original report is not about the arc/ellipse object and its center.
I's about making multiple rotations "associative" by default for any asymmetric selection.

I added some confusion myself in comment #12 because I didn't fully understand what the comment in #2 was about.

The center of the "minimum enclosing circle" of an arc does not even coincide with the center of the arc.

So the current code in trunk solves the problem of rotating a partial arc around its center, I tested it and it works fine, but my report was not about that.

Example:
 1. convert an arc to a _path_
 2. Select the object and rotate it by 45 using the bounding box center (the current default behavior)
 3. Rotate it back by -45, the object is in a different position compared to 1.

My issue is not about rotational symmetry (which r15061 fixes), it's about associativity.

Thanks,
   Antonio