In most cases, when I use a dialogue to modify an object's properties, it is necessary to click on the object to return control to the main window. There seems to be no way to tab back to the window, and F1 is also useless. Frequent mouse moves are tiring and slow. Is there a keyboard alternative?
When I use the mouse to move text, it is often the background that moves instead of the text. I select the text object, but that doesn't seem to help. This is one time when I am forced to use the keyboard. It's annoying because I have to undo the incorrect mouse-move.
Finally, there seems to be no way in the keyboard preferences to assign a key to the mouse double-click that is used to create a node on a path. The mouse would still be needed to point to the site where the node is to be created, but the keystroke would initiate the creation.
Thank you! I tried Esc with the transform dialogue and the fill and stroke dialogue. And it works! How did I manage to overlook the most obvious solution?!
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In most cases, when I use a dialogue to modify an object's properties, it is necessary to click on the object to return control to the main window. There seems to be no way to tab back to the window, and F1 is also useless. Frequent mouse moves are tiring and slow. Is there a keyboard alternative?
When I use the mouse to move text, it is often the background that moves instead of the text. I select the text object, but that doesn't seem to help. This is one time when I am forced to use the keyboard. It's annoying because I have to undo the incorrect mouse-move.
Finally, there seems to be no way in the keyboard preferences to assign a key to the mouse double-click that is used to create a node on a path. The mouse would still be needed to point to the site where the node is to be created, but the keystroke would initiate the creation.
ESC usually returns focus to the canvas.
The text/pointer relationship is reportedly improved in v1.0, but that version has other issues.
Feature requests can be made on the bug-tracker. Info here: https://inkscape.org/forums/beyond/how-to-report-bugs-or-request-new-features/
Thank you! I tried Esc with the transform dialogue and the fill and stroke dialogue. And it works! How did I manage to overlook the most obvious solution?!
Thanks for the feature-request link -- https://inkscape.org/forums/beyond/how-to-report-bugs-or-request-new-features/