[scribus] feedback needed: snap to items

[Philipp Anamnese]

Hi, 
I was also wondering about ways to improve snapping and two things came to
mind.
1. I would not choose shift as a modifier but some other normal shortcut to
kind of toggle the snapping behavior.
There could also be the functionality of hitting that key multiple times to
switch between two different snapping options like frames/rulers to objects.



2. Keeping in mind that this idea is getting quite complex it would be nice
if objects that are snapped to a ruler, would move too, when the ruler is
moved or changed...

Phil


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Von: ale rimoldi [mailto:ale.comp_06 at xox.ch] 
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. März 2018 22:58
An: scribus at lists.scribus.net
Betreff: [scribus] feedback needed: snap to items

hi

in scribus 1.5.4svn one can get an item to snap to other items.

in some cases this is a very useful feature and can be activated through the
page menu.
on the other hand, personally, i haven't heard of anybody who keeps it on
all the time. (or even for longer periods of time.)

i don't. and as a result, i tend to forget about it and only use the align
and distribute tool.

today a user asked for the rulers to also snap to the items and suggested to
use the shift modifier for this.

i liked the idea and we discussed that it should generally be possible to
snap to items by simply holding down the shift key.

i've created a first patch for it:

https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=15228

while working on this, i was thinking more and more that this should be THE
way to activate the snapping among items.

i started looking for workflows that are better served by activating a long
term "snap to items" mode but i could not find any.

i've now opened a ticket asking for the shift modifier to replace the
current snap to items mode:

https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=15230

if you know about workflows that really would suffer from the removal of
this snapping mode, please present it here or in the bug tracker.

of course: it is not about removing the snapping to items, but about
replacing a "fix" snapping mode, by an on-the-fly one.

in the ticket with the patch
(https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=15228) you can see an animation,
showing how the snapping with the shift key will work.

and for the one who wonders why it would be necessary to remove one of
them:

- the code managing the snapping is rather complex and adding a new way
  to snap makes it even more complex. (and hard to maintain)
- the scribus UI is also very complex and every simplification is
  welcome!

have fun
a.l.e

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