https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168628

--- Comment #6 from jan d <[email protected]> ---
The behavior the the selection rectangle makes sense to me, it behaves as I
expected it: It is a rectangle enclosing all objects selected, and its shape is
based on the current view as I see it (so it changes with different page
layouts). As Heiko pointed out, not seeing the whole rectangle at any point
implies that there are more shapes selected that are currently not fully in
view. 

As for what should happen in the realignment: It seems that the command does
what I expect it to do when I have the pages vertically layed out and then do a
center horizontally: Both object are aligned with each other. Same for
middle-vertically when pages are layed out horizontally, based on the current
view mode and selection; the model seems to be that the whole document as one
space and the new positions are calculated based on this. This makes sense,
since the align-action is inherently visual. 

If I have the pages layout out vertically and ask to middle-vertically align
objects on different pages, this model is not entirely upheld, though: The
algorithm seems to try do a "try to act upon the command as good as possible
but stop at the page boundaries", which seems to be a saveguard for objects
jumping to other pages.

I.e. The current behavior of the selection makes sense to me, the aligment
behavior mostly makes sense to me, and the problems seem to be created by
compromizes that make different concepts of how objects should behave (mostly)
work well in parallel.

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