Move snapping setting to global lavel (instead of per document property)

Bug #615553 reported by Vladimir Savic
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Bug Description

As above!
I believe snapping would be much better as inkscape's general setting, rather then per document setting.
At least option for such behavior would be handy.

su_v (suv-lp)
tags: added: preferences snapping
Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Diederik van Lierop (mail-diedenrezi) wrote :

It should be possible to put your preferred snap settings in the default new document template, if I'm right. Never tested this though. At least this gives you a default set of settings for each new document.

In general though I think though that snapping settings should be stored per document, not globally.

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

> It should be possible to put your preferred snap settings in the default
> new document template, if I'm right. Never tested this though.

Tested and confirmed: snap settings are picked up from the used template. You can either edit the global default template ('/usr/share/inkscape/templates/default.svg') or save a user default template as '~/.config/inkscape/templates/default.svg' - it will set document-specific settings like window size, page size, initial zoom level&center, guides, grids, snapping (what snaps, snap targets) etc. for each new document.

<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/annotate/head%3A/share/templates/README>

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Vladimir Savic (vladimir-firefly-savic) wrote :

It's nice to know how "defaults" work, but it's just a workaround. I'd rather try to do it right.
That right way IMHO is:
- predefined defaults in preferences
- per document saved settings
in that order.

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

related earlier discussion:
Bug #246028 “Why snapping is in document properties”:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/246028>

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