Thoughts on snapping

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Totally agree with you @ajitid. Just cross-referencing a post I opened earlier that goes in the same direction.

I also thinks it tries to snap to too many things by default, and would agree the behavior you’re describing here is the right way to go :

And also, I guess snapping to elements that are super far away should not make sense in most cases.

But of course there are still cases where you want to do those things, which is why I was suggesting there could be a modifier key that applies the current behavior, which is “try to snap to anything you possibly can”. The default behavior should be smarter in the sense that

  • It only snaps to your surroundings
  • Only to stuff you’re most likely interested in

What do you think about the magnet strength? I have the feeling in other software like Affinity Designer, it’s much more gentle, way less abrupt than here. Maybe that would make it feel smoother and less invasive?