Align and Distribute: Remove spacing between objects

Migrated from https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171083
From 2006-01-15

Summary:

It would be nice if in the Align and Distribute dialog there were an option to move all objects twards the the anchor such that they were aligned to the object closest to them. See attached image for an example.

The top group of objects is selected. When the tool is clicked, the right most block stays in place, the next left block moves so that it's right side is touching the right-most block's left side. The second left block is moved so that it's right side is touching the first left block's left side and so on, so that all objects are now touching. The objects aren't resized, just moved.

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Additional Information/Comments:

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All that aside, this is a wonderful idea (strange there are no duplicate issues), an "easy fix" (so says Wybrow/Dwyer), and probably could be implemented right under or incorporated into "Remove overlaps".

Thumbs up? Thumbs down? What do you think?