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[Feature Request] Perpetual move cursor

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How do you think Inkscape could be improved?

I think Inkscape should adopt the implementation of the the perpetual move cursor like Blender's got.

Like most users, I find myself struggling sometimes to move around the graphic when I'm really zoomed-in in order to fix some artefacts from some vectors generated with Illustrator etc.

Whether I use space bar + mouse movement or middle mouse button to move around I loose much of my time returning the cursor back to the position from where I can drag again.

This could be solved very nicely by having a perpetual move cursor and it's a killer feature to have anyway.

To clarify, it's actually a cursor that can pan in any direction indefinitely.

When a cursor hits the edge of the "viewport" while panning it will show up on the translated opposite edge of the viewport and keep panning. So you can pan as long as you can move your mouse on your desk, the cursor doesn't care.

Basically it won't stop panning when the cursor hits the edge of the screen as it does currently and you won't need to stop panning, move the cursor back and begin panning again as it works currently.

You can see the example of the perpetual cursor here: https://youtu.be/WnBzOkb0Gb0

Edited by Adam Belis
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