When working with clones I often find myself having to change the Move Clones option (When the original moves, its clones and linked offsets:) on the fly, and Relink to Copied and Select Original also get used a lot.
Currently it's not very easy to get to those options, for the first one I keep Inkscape preferences docked and open on Clones "page" so I can easily change the moving options with a single click.
Is there a keyboard shortcut for Relink to Copied? It's a bit distracting having to navigate through the menus.
Suggestion a)
Maybe adding those icons to the main toolbar can help, although its already packed. The most space saving option would be to have Relink to Copied keyboard shortcut, so that and the Select Original would be accessible from the keyboard. This leaves only the 3 moving options that could be added to the toolbar in the form of a drop-down menu.
Suggestion b)
Cloning objects in Inkscape is a very powerful and useful feature, it deserves its own docking dialog. I've made a quick mockup of what it might look like, see attachment.
The last icon in the row is Relink to Copied, a quick derivative from Select original.
I favor Suggestion b)
> Is there a keyboard shortcut for Relink to Copied?
A verb for relinking a clone to the copied exists [2] and can be used for assigning a shortcut key. Add the following line to your keymap file [1] and adjust the key and modifiers as needed:
<bind key="d" modifiers=
[1] user keymap file:
~/
system keymap file:
/usr/
[2] available verbs for clones (0.47, 047+devel):
- EditClone: Create a clone (a copy linked to the original)
of selected object
- EditUnlinkClone: Cut the selected clones' links to the originals,
- EditRelinkClone: Relink the selected clones to the object currently
- EditCloneSelect