Object picker tool: no title text, no indication of tool being active, canvas jumping, no obvious way to leave tool
Summary:
Trying out the object picker proved to be a little confusing for the following reasons:
- The tool icon does not have any hover text -> it is not clear to someone who doesn't know about it what it will do.
- The icon does not give any indication of being 'active' in some way -> the changed 'mode' isn't obvious and you feel caught in that mode because
- There's no obvious way to leave the tool (I tried hitting Escape, and it did nothing, just like clicking on the icon again does nothing).
- Then there's the visual annoyance of the canvas jumping when the tool is activated, because there is no toolbar for it.
Steps to reproduce:
- open Inkscape
- draw a few objects
- select one of them
- right-click to choose to set an anchor
- be exploratory - try the hand icon
What happened?
see above.
What should have happened?
- The tool's button should have an explanatory title text.
- The button should have an 'active' state when its active.
- It should be possible to leave the tool by hitting Escape or by pressing the button again
- It should either have a placeholder toolbar of the same height as the normal one, or at least objects should not move when the view is widened.
Version info
Inkscape 1.4-dev (07fdc5641e, 2024-03-10)
Compile (Run)
GLib version: 2.72.4
GTK version: 3.24.33 (3.24.33)
glibmm version: 2.66.2
gtkmm version: 3.24.5
libxml2 version: 2.9.13
libxslt version: 1.1.34
Cairo version: 1.16.0 (1.16.0)
Pango version: 1.50.6 (1.50.6)
HarfBuzz version: 2.7.4 (2.7.4)
OS version: Linux Mint 21.3