Give information to the user relative to what he'll be aligning to
Summary:
In "Object/Align and Distribute" there are multiple "relative to :" elements you can align to.
Current
When in "Object/Align and Distribute", there's no visual information relative to what you'll be aligning to which make it easy to quickly align to the wrong thing.
Proposed
- When the "Relative to:" drop down is open, highlight relative to what you'll be aligning to (you are hovering).
- When hovering a relative to button, do the same, highlight relative to what you'll be aligning to.
- Have a live preview checkbox to switch the behavior of hovering a relative to button. So that that the resulting behavior can be previewed.
As an example, if you select a few objects and are hovering the relative to "Selection Area", the group of selected objects will be highlighted.
Then when hovering the alignment buttons a preview of the alignment should show the end result, prior to applying it. I added a line to show it's a preview of that alignment type.
Related issue
This issue cames from #12063, but does not fix it.
Edited by Kristian Benoit

