Re: 0.96pre. Location of pasted objects

[christian ridderstrom gmail com]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, christian ridderstrom gmail com wrote:

I have *not* filed the stuff below in bugzilla. I think it deserves a bit 
of discussion first. For one thing, I'm not sure if this is the intended 
behaviour, or if what I'm seeing is a bug.

/C

> I noticed that there's a beginning of something clever as to where an object 
> you copy and then paste is inserted. However, it's not working so great at 
> the moment. I think it should at least be disabled by default.
>
> Here's what happens if I do:
> 1. Copy an object
> 2. Press Ctrl-v to insert an object
>
>         The new object is inserted close to the top left of the window
>
> 3. Press Ctrl-v to insert an object again
>
>         The second object is insert a little bit below and to the right
>
> 4. Press Ctrl-v to insert an object once more
>
>          The third object is insert a little bit below and to the right
>          of the second object.
>
> This is annoying and I'm unable to figure out how to change the 
> "delta-distance" between the objects.
>
> Nor can I control where the object is initially inserted by for instance 
> clicking on the screen.
>
> So I think this behaviour should at least be disabled by default.

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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr