Path->Combine on a text element returns a group with a single path; ungrouping unsuccessful without deselecting and selecting again
Migrated from: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1773861
Summary by @jhofinger: This issue concentrates on the fact that a group is created when applying Path->Combine on a text object. Ungrouping fails since not the group, but the path is selected (see XML editor). You have to deselect and select the object again to ungroup and get the path.
This one is so complex, I can only quote the original. But I've just reproduced it in 1.0beta2. 1.0beta2 (1c3732b, 2019-12-09)
From brynn:
We've found some irregularities in this forum thread: https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=1152.0 where Path menu > Combine was used to convert text to path.
This has been tested in 0.92.3 on Windows 7, and one or 2 other unknown specific versions, both some flavor of 0.92, with Windows 10 and Linux Mint. [Note that I just tested in 1.0beta2, with identical results.]
To reproduce:
- type text
- Path menu > Combine
- switch to Selection tool
Status bar reports "Path (number of nodes) in group text1234". This is typically what we see when we select one path which is part of a Group. So we're automatically inside the group here.
- Ungroup
Status bar reports "No groups to ungroup" (probably because the focus is being inside the group).
- deselect, then reselect
Status bar reports "Group of 1...."
- Ungroup
Ungroup works as expected.
We aren't sure exactly which part of this is the bug. To me, Combine should not be capable of converting text to path. So to me, that's the bug.
Moini suggests that the Group should not be needed, so that the bug is the creation of the group.
Or one might consider that being automatically inside the group after Combine, might be the bug.
Or perhaps there is some other issue behind allowing Combine to convert text to path, which I don't recognize?
Thanks for listening :-)
And thanks for listening again!