After installing 0.48 on Debian Lenny I noticed a weird problem with node editing .

If I try to align multiple selected nodes from one selected object, they are not aligned by the position of last selected nodes as I expected and as is in older INkscape versions, but now they are aligned in the middle of all selected nodes.

Check out simple demo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwly0pvP7aE

Is this a new feature, or some option can be disabled so I can align all nodes to last selected one?

TIA

urke wrote:If I try to align multiple selected nodes from one selected object, they are not aligned by the position of last selected nodes as I expected and as is in older INkscape versions, but now they are aligned in the middle of all selected nodes.

Confirming that the method of aligning nodes has changed in the new node tool of Inkscape 0.48 (I didn't watch the video though - please correct me if I misinterpreted your description here!). Whether it is really a bug or intended change of behavior I don't know for sure, but I assume it was intended by the developer of the new node tool.

The issue has been noted in the comments of Bug #171287 “Align dialog should have "Relative to" for nodes, too”. Whether to file a separate wishlist bug (request to add an option to choose between averaging or aligning nodes) or not - that's up to you ;-).

Yeah ~suv, that's the problem Damn, that is pretty old issue, I'm wondering why it's not fixed before 0.48 release

0.48.2 is out and node alignment is still broken... is this so hard to fix?

Has anyone formally requested it, via New Feature/Wish List "bug report" on Launchpad, as ~suv suggested above? My understanding of ~suv's reply, is that the developers probably had some reason for changing it. But if not, then perhaps (I'm thinking) they may not even be aware.
As brilliant and gifted and generous as the developers are, they still haven't learned to read minds

There is a patch that fix node alignment tool. But i have no idea how to apply patch to inkscape. If someone have experience with applying patches to inkscape would be great if we can get patched inkscape. Here is the link:
** Patch added: "fixbug171287.patch"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bu ... 1287.patch

ktwist wrote:There is a patch that fix node alignment tool. But i have no idea how to apply patch to inkscape. If someone have experience with applying patches to inkscape would be great if we can get patched inkscape. Here is the link:
** Patch added: "fixbug171287.patch"

Patches are not meant for regular users: you would have to be able to compile the current development version of Inkscape yourself on your system (and know how to apply the patch to the sources). Keep in mind that the bug tracker is a tool for developers to track progress on fixing reported issues and discuss proposed solutions/implementations - as users, you'll get the result in bug fix releases and new major versions (for new features).

Please show some patience - the patch was just provided a day ago (by an aspiring new developer, not yet a member of the core Inkscape developer team) and needs to be reviewed both technically (code-wise) as well as on aspects of usability first (ongoing process) before it will be considered for merging into the development tree. Hopefully you'll see the result in the next major release.