Inkscape

message flashing makes useful translation/rotation messages unreadable

Bug #1136508 reported by Adolf Mathias
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Bug Description

As a routined user of Inkscape, I do not need the selection context describer created in
select-context.cpp:sp_select_context_setup

Instead, I absolutely prefer the stable translation and rotation amount message that I get when I disable the _describer. This has been a major annoyance for me, and I think it makes Inkscape unusable for accurate editing since you cannot read these important messages being disturbed by trivial beginner stuff.

I think the _describer should simply be deactivated while dragging the mouse, but since this is my first evening with Inkscape source code, I cannot find where that is.

Anyway, here is my small patch rel. to the 0.48.4 tarball

diff -r inkscape-0.48.4/src/select-context.cpp orig/inkscape-0.48.4/src/select-context.cpp
174,179c174
< if (select_context->_describer) {
< delete select_context->_describer;
< select_context->_describer = NULL;
< }
< #if 0
< new Inkscape::SelectionDescriber(
---
> select_context->_describer = new Inkscape::SelectionDescriber(

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Adolf Mathias (adolf-mathias-gmail) wrote :

Oops, sorry. My patch is the wrong way round

diff -r orig/inkscape-0.48.4/src/select-context.cpp inkscape-0.48.4/src/select-context.cpp
174c174,179
< select_context->_describer = new Inkscape::SelectionDescriber(
---
> if (select_context->_describer) {
> delete select_context->_describer;
> select_context->_describer = NULL;
> }
> #if 0
> new Inkscape::SelectionDescriber(
 180c185
<
---
> #endif

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

Same issue as described in Bug #636220 “Text describing selection superimposes change description in the notification area”?
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/636220>

tags: added: selection transformations ui
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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

Attaching reformatted diff (against current release branch <lp:inkscape/0.48.x> r10009) to ease testing and reviewing.

(Note: pasting diffs inline into bug reports / comments doesn't really work well since both the MUA(s) and launchpad.net tend to mangle the formatting of spaces and newlines. While the attached version does apply, and compile, I'm not 100% sure whether I succeeded to extract the relevant diff with the original formatting from Thunderbird).

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

Patch tested successfully with 0.48.x r10009 on OS X 10.7.5.

Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

> Patch tested successfully with 0.48.x r10009 on OS X 10.7.5.

I have to retract that: while the change works nicely while transforming a selection, it appears to completely break (or prevent) the display and updating of the default message (displaying information about object type, layer, etc), affects existing and newly created objects.

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