Cloning objects

[morris]

morris, I would have selected a scaling of 66.7% myself.

That was just an example. If my "source" object was 0.65cm and I wanted the clone to be 0.36cm, I'd like to be able to set the size explicitly, not calculating the needed percentage first ;-)
With the current cloning (or after-cloning, to be precise) behavior, it requires two additional mouseclicks, or a keypress and a mouseclick.

But the shadow is not a shadow of its own being, it is a shadow of the object. Both are linked and the change of one necessarily forces a change on the other. Clone your object and add a feathering and a transparency with the needed shadow colour. Then you can alter scaling and other aspects like an envelope to reflect an undulating surface. Far more versatile.

That was also just an example - to illustrate that shadow is treated a bit differently in dragging and cloning.

When you have an ellipse with a shadow and click (select) the shadow - the status line says "1 shadow". When you try to drag the shadow, the selection automagically jumps to the ellipse (watch the status line). That's fine.

Now, when you select this ellipse and clone it, you end up with two objects selected (see the status line - "2 objects"), while you'd expect only the cloned ellipse to be selected afterwards (well, at least I'd expect that).