On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> > Those sound like useful things. Speaking of menu enhancements: the
>> > middle click menu is quite sparse at the moment. Does anyone think it
>> > would be a good idea to add a few standard object actions to this menu
>> > (such as delete, properties, and a few others I can't think of at the
>> > moment).
>>
>> I'm kinda thinking that the middle menu should really be a submenu of
>> the right menu. Only that's a bit more involved. People are having
>> enough trouble finding the right menu (should we start having a Tip of
>> the Day thing like Gimp?), the middle menu is definitely a problem.
>
> when creating new objects, i find i need to move them and/or resize them
> right away. i find counter-intuitive that clicking in one of the green
> handles, it actually creates another object. the green handles apparently
> just denote the object being selected, but then, i cannot select any
> other object in this mode!
You need to go into Preferences and select 'Reset tools after create'.
Then you'll snap back to the pointer tool and be able to move it around.
This should really be the default, I think.
-Lars
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