intelligent transform handlers positioning

Bug #237696 reported by mray
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Inkscape
Confirmed
Wishlist
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Bug Description

The problem:
create a large object (about 600% of the view).
when working with it you cannot scale the object - UNLESS you are lucky and you are looking at the exact center of an edge.
So most of the time you have to scroll/pan around to find the scale/skew handlers when looking at large objects.

The idea:
position the size/skew handlers on the edge of the boundingbox, but on the _visible_ center of the edge, not the absolute center of the object.
that way you can always scale without searching the handler.

note:
this obviously won't work with the handlers on the corners.

Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Revision history for this message
Guillermo Espertino (Gez) (gespertino-gmail) wrote :

I really like the GIMP's transform widgets. They completely solve this common problem.
Currently there are scale widgets only, but there are some ideas from their UI team to provide refreshed widgets for rotation and skew too.
http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Transformation_tool_specification

Changed in inkscape:
status: New → Confirmed
su_v (suv-lp)
tags: added: transformations ui
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