Comment 15 for bug 174046

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Diederik van Lierop <email address hidden> wrote:
> Bulia, another consideration: suppose a user is again using visual
> bboxes in the selector tool, and that has created a path of which the
> nodes are snapped and aligned to a grid. Next, when translating the
> path's nodes will snap to the grid again. But when he tries to scale it,
> the nodes won't snap. We cannot expect that any user would immediately
> realize that he needs to switch to geometrical bboxes, or can we?

So the question is, do people really need node snapping when scaling.
I'm really not sure of that. Even with ellipse center - scaling an
ellipse to snap its center is imho a very contorted way to act, I
would assume most people would first move it to snap the center and
then scale it around the center, which is much more natural. So I
would vote for disabling node snapping for scaling, perhaps adding a
checkbox to snapping option s, under Snap ndodes, "Snap nodes even
when scaling in Selector" if people want to override that at the
expense of not keeping the origin (as should be explained in the
tooltip).

However, I'm not a heavy user of snapping, so perhaps we need more
input before committing to this.