Another addition to inkscape between 0.45.1 and the upcoming 0.46 release is the touch selection ability of the select tool. By holding down ALT and clicking and dragging, the selector tool selects everything that passes through the red selection path. Below is a screen video of the new feature in action, on a 10 x 10 set of square objects.
Check out the notes about touch selection on the Inkscape Wiki
if the video is not embedded, click here. (goes to blog post)
or download the files:
.avi (xvid) | .ogg (theora)
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July 26, 2007 at 11:47 pm |
There’s a problem with this. “Alt + Mouse click and drag” on Linux is “Move this window”, at least with the default window managers of KDE and Gnome. Maybe one can circumvent this by first clicking and then pressing Alt, is this possible in Inkscape?
July 27, 2007 at 4:31 am |
@Robin,
I always thought that was really annoying as well, and I’ve disabled that feature in Gnome so I can alt-click and get expected results instead of moving my window.
-Scott
July 27, 2007 at 8:47 am |
Well, I actually think it’s a very useful feature, I always miss it in other operating systems. I just wanted to make the author of the “touch selection” feature aware of this issue, as it seems from his screenshots that he is a windows user.
July 27, 2007 at 9:30 am |
Robin, the Inkscape authors defiantly know that alt is already taken on KDE / Gnome by default, Its just that running out of keyboard shot cuts is a real problem, and there are only so many ways you can shuffle them… but a lot of the features accessible only with key shortcuts / modifiers probably need a GUI way of interacting as well, any ideas? (without too much clutter???)
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July 28, 2007 at 8:44 am |
@Tom: Yes, it’s a problem. Unfortunately, I don’t have any ideas on how to solve it :/.
August 3, 2007 at 6:07 am |
Not a general, but my personal solution:
As there are many apps that use the Alt-modifier, I assigned all Windowmanager related shortcuts to the Window(Super/Meta)-Key. I’ve got much less conflicts now.
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Rud
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