Comment 20 for bug 174046

Well, clearly no one expressed a real need for snapping of nodes while transforming the visual bounding box. We could therefore let go of this "feature", but I'm not quite ready for that yet ;-). It would have made life easier for me, but when I started this discussion I was already quite far in modifying the selector tool to automagically select the correct origin. I've worked on this a little bit more last evening, and found that it actually works quite well. The origin of the transformations jumps a bit when a node snaps (when using visual bboxes, and scaling of stroke width turned on), but I didn't find this annoying at all (which I expected it to be).

I'll go ahead implementing it like this for transformations other than scaling also. When everything has been sorted out then we can still easily disable this feature in the code if needed, or even have a preference for it. Even when disabled, Inkscape will have gained from this because it makes the selector tool's source code more explicit and versatile. I'll update you all once I've committed this stuff, so you can have a look at it.