User interface issues

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Tuesday 23 August 2011 Aug, Jan Hambrecht wrote:
> On 23.08.2011 10:43, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> 
> > * Selecting a shape is quite difficult. Depending on the active tool, a click can select a shape, manipulate a shape or do nothing. One proposal is to show a border on hover that when clicked will always select the shape and that will allow basic manipulation such as dragging and changing geometry.
> 
> Unfortunately it's not that easy as it sounds. If I edit a control point 
> of a path shape which happens to be on top of another shape, I don't 
> want to accidentally hit that magic border of the other shape and select 
> that.
> Or the case where there are several shapes on top of each other, editing 
> one of them would show all selection borders of all these shapes?
> So we have to keep in mind, that shapes are not always nicely separated 
> from each other.

I'll add that to the list of issues to solve :-)

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Boudewijn Rempt
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