M1: Set default properties gives new shapes and text the layer's properties (#2028)

Edit ▸ Set default properties put the selected layer's properties into the Paste properties
clipboard and did nothing else: a rectangle drawn afterwards was still the default grey, and what
Copy properties had copied was replaced.

The defaults are now kept apart (`Session::default_props`: one set for shapes, set from any layer
but text, and one for text). Rectangles, ellipses, polygons and stars drawn or clicked with their
tools take the shape defaults: fills, strokes and their settings, effects, opacity, blend and
corners (only where the shape has corners), through `apply_copied_props`, the rules Paste
properties already used (now shared). New text from the Text tool takes a text layer's fills and
font and is laid out at that size. Frames, sections, slices, lines, arrows, vectors and layers made
by commands keep their own look; the help center is silent on those. `edit.setDefaultProperties`
answers `{for: shapes|text, properties}`.

Tests: `default_props_tests::new_shapes_drawn_with_the_tools_take_the_default_properties`,
`setting_defaults_leaves_the_copied_properties_alone`,
`new_text_takes_a_text_layers_defaults_and_shapes_keep_theirs`. Docs: ui-parity.md, ROADMAP.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LvG6E2LxvJ6MuFmiLA6Zqm

docs/ui-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # UI and interaction parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-04 · **Change:** patch (a press on the open gradient's handles or stops on the canvas keeps the colour picker open through the drag, as its own control (#1852); a click with the Bend tool on a sharp point curves it, its handles along the line between its neighbours, as Edit vector layers says (#1875); wrap style: Auto, Balance and Pretty on a text layer decide where its lines break, as Explore text properties says (#1827), with the Type settings control, `text.wrapStyle`, `node.set wrapStyle`, inspect and the CSS `text-wrap`; Backspace or Delete at the start of a list item keeps the item's indentation level, as the lists article says; max lines on auto-width text keep it auto width, hugging that many lines, as the text properties article says; superscript and subscript are synthesised where the font has no glyphs for them, from the standard glyphs shrunk and shifted by the font's OS/2 metrics, and a run mixing available and unavailable glyphs is synthesised whole, as Explore text properties says (#1828); Alt+Enter while editing text opens the link at the caret, as the accessibility page documents; Minimize, by its shortcut or the button by the file name, collapses the navigation bar and both sidebars as the help center says, with the right sidebar back while something is selected (#1835); the interface size keys of the help center's accessibility page: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Alt with =, - and 0 step the interface through the Preferences sizes and back to the system's size; Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+arrows rotate the selection a degree at a time, 15 with Shift, as the help center's accessibility page says; they resized before; the Layers panel answers Ctrl+1 as well as Alt+1 on Windows and Linux, the two keys the help center gives it; the colour picker's Image tab shows a placeholder and Upload from computer, an asset preview, and a file dropped on it replaces the image, keeping the fill mode, crop and position (#1682); the keyboard's Menu key opens the context menu, as Shift+F10 does; the eyedropper with Cmd/Ctrl+Shift makes a colour style or variable of what it picks; sidebar number and text fields keep their text vertically centered when focused, including typography spacing; with the pen out, Enter or a double-click ends the path and edits the vector with the Move tool instead of drawing on (#1430); the Actions palette offers only commands that run from it, and no second row reading like a menu item: Place image opens the file dialog (#1574); Preferences ▸ Scroll wheel zoom: a mouse wheel zooms the canvas about the pointer and Cmd/Ctrl+wheel scrolls (#1390); boolean operations refuse input past their caps, and a boolean group past them draws without its result (#1104); the selection and hover outlines of rounded rectangles and frames follow their corners (#1506); colour picker review fixes for text undo, fitted sidebars, moving controls and gradient variables; Corner smoothing: an original icon and the shared number-field drag gesture, preserving fractional baselines; guides snap to layers when dragged; Crop image: Object ▸ Crop image, the right-click menu and the image fill row enter crop mode (`image.crop`, #1464); the Design panel's sections on one grid — 16 / 8 margins, 88 + 8 + 88 + 8 + 24 columns, 24 pt rows, 4 pt between a row's buttons (#858); the toolbar on one 32 pt grid, without its Resources button (#1210); colour picker LCH and OKLCH models; an XML (Android Vector Drawable) export format; Context menus: the Menu key reaches egui 0.37 but is unbound (row done → partial); the Text on a path tool; board tool keys pinned; community fixes: the text box by dragging, the font picker keys, the pen path on leaving Design, a still canvas in vector edit mode, a scrolling pages list, colour emoji, readable new text in frames, system theme on first run; the Small caps sample in Type settings drawn from capitals; recent files as cards; vector edit mode: hovering, hatching, selecting and dragging filled regions; home screen: Templates tab, first-run templates and Getting started tips; number fields: scrub rates, arrow steps, arithmetic with brackets, relative edits of mixed values; outline mode's hidden layers and object bounds; Hide when publishing; cursors per tool and modifier; panel widths; dark pages for files made in the dark theme; drag threshold and double-clicks into text in groups; rotation origin on Alt+R and placing with Enter: no documented shortcut missing; keyboard shortcut parity suite and bindings; cursor chat and spotlight in live sessions; layers and assets panels behaviour suite and fixes; vector multi-edit and the vector edit tail; canvas navigation, guides and grids behaviour suite and fixes; shapes and vector behaviour suite and fixes; paint and effects behaviour suite and fixes; frames, groups, sections and masks behaviour suite and fixes; layers panel keyboard: F2 rename, Shift+F10 context menu, F8 box selection; selection and transLine truncated
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-06 · **Change:** patch (Edit ▸ Set default properties now gives new shapes and text drawn with the tools the selected layer's fills, strokes, effects, opacity and corners (text: its font) instead of only copying them for Paste properties (#2028); a press on the open gradient's handles or stops on the canvas keeps the colour picker open through the drag, as its own control (#1852); a click with the Bend tool on a sharp point curves it, its handles along the line between its neighbours, as Edit vector layers says (#1875); wrap style: Auto, Balance and Pretty on a text layer decide where its lines break, as Explore text properties says (#1827), with the Type settings control, `text.wrapStyle`, `node.set wrapStyle`, inspect and the CSS `text-wrap`; Backspace or Delete at the start of a list item keeps the item's indentation level, as the lists article says; max lines on auto-width text keep it auto width, hugging that many lines, as the text properties article says; superscript and subscript are synthesised where the font has no glyphs for them, from the standard glyphs shrunk and shifted by the font's OS/2 metrics, and a run mixing available and unavailable glyphs is synthesised whole, as Explore text properties says (#1828); Alt+Enter while editing text opens the link at the caret, as the accessibility page documents; Minimize, by its shortcut or the button by the file name, collapses the navigation bar and both sidebars as the help center says, with the right sidebar back while something is selected (#1835); the interface size keys of the help center's accessibility page: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Alt with =, - and 0 step the interface through the Preferences sizes and back to the system's size; Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+arrows rotate the selection a degree at a time, 15 with Shift, as the help center's accessibility page says; they resized before; the Layers panel answers Ctrl+1 as well as Alt+1 on Windows and Linux, the two keys the help center gives it; the colour picker's Image tab shows a placeholder and Upload from computer, an asset preview, and a file dropped on it replaces the image, keeping the fill mode, crop and position (#1682); the keyboard's Menu key opens the context menu, as Shift+F10 does; the eyedropper with Cmd/Ctrl+Shift makes a colour style or variable of what it picks; sidebar number and text fields keep their text vertically centered when focused, including typography spacing; with the pen out, Enter or a double-click ends the path and edits the vector with the Move tool instead of drawing on (#1430); the Actions palette offers only commands that run from it, and no second row reading like a menu item: Place image opens the file dialog (#1574); Preferences ▸ Scroll wheel zoom: a mouse wheel zooms the canvas about the pointer and Cmd/Ctrl+wheel scrolls (#1390); boolean operations refuse input past their caps, and a boolean group past them draws without its result (#1104); the selection and hover outlines of rounded rectangles and frames follow their corners (#1506); colour picker review fixes for text undo, fitted sidebars, moving controls and gradient variables; Corner smoothing: an original icon and the shared number-field drag gesture, preserving fractional baselines; guides snap to layers when dragged; Crop image: Object ▸ Crop image, the right-click menu and the image fill row enter crop mode (`image.crop`, #1464); the Design panel's sections on one grid — 16 / 8 margins, 88 + 8 + 88 + 8 + 24 columns, 24 pt rows, 4 pt between a row's buttons (#858); the toolbar on one 32 pt grid, without its Resources button (#1210); colour picker LCH and OKLCH models; an XML (Android Vector Drawable) export format; Context menus: the Menu key reaches egui 0.37 but is unbound (row done → partial); the Text on a path tool; board tool keys pinned; community fixes: the text box by dragging, the font picker keys, the pen path on leaving Design, a still canvas in vector edit mode, a scrolling pages list, colour emoji, readable new text in frames, system theme on first run; the Small caps sample in Type settings drawn from capitals; recent files as cards; vector edit mode: hovering, hatching, selecting and dragging filled regions; home screen: Templates tab, first-run templates and Getting started tips; number fields: scrub rates, arrow steps, arithmetic with brackets, relative edits of mixed values; outline mode's hidden layers and object bounds; Hide when publishing; cursors per tool and modifier; panel widths; dark pages for files made in the dark theme; drag threshold and double-clicks into text in groups; rotation origin on Alt+R and placing with Enter: no documented shortcut missing; keyboard shortcut parity suite and bindings; cursor chat and spotlight in live sessions; layers and assets panels behaviour suite and fixes; vector multi-edit and the vector edit tail; canvas navigation, guides and grids behaviour suite and fixes; shapes and vector behaLine truncated
 
 Fine canvas control is what Figma users feel first: handles, snapping, nudging, modifier keys,
 drag behaviour, numeric precision. This checklist covers the tools, gestures and panels. Status:
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ interaction feel not yet compared.
 | Numeric fields: arithmetic, scrubbing by dragging the label, mixed values | done | Numeric panels use `widgets::number_field`; Corner smoothing has an original code-drawn icon, a 24 pt drag target and an accessible name, with live changes, fractional values preserved across consecutive drags, Shift/Alt rates, 0–100% clamping and one-step undo/redo (`corner_individual_tests`); Typography line height, letter spacing and paragraph spacing share its leading-icon scrub logic (#373), retaining their existing unit parsing, Auto/Mixed values, variable chips and selected-character targeting (`typography_scrub_tests`). Scrubbing the label: a step a point (1 px; 1% of opacity, 1° of rotation), ten with Shift, a tenth with Alt, each stretch at the rate held while it was dragged, one undo step when let go; past the edge of the screen it goes on where the platform reports the mouse's own motion (desktop), otherwise it stops there. Arrow keys: Up/Down step a pixel field by the small nudge and Shift by the big nudge (the preferences), other fields by their own step and ten of it; they work while typing (from what is typed) and with the keyboard on the field. Typing: `+ - * /`, brackets, units (`px`, `°`, `%`, `x`, `ms`), a decimal comma; `+10`, `*2`, `/4` are relative to the value, and `50%`, `+10%`, `-10%` too in a field that isn't a percentage. Enter, Tab or a click elsewhere commits (Tab and Shift+Tab move to the next and previous control), Escape restores; a field left as it was commits nothing (no undo step, and a rounded display isn't written back). Mixed values show "Mixed": a number sets them all, a relative edit or an arrow key goes to each layer from its own value in one undo step, for X, Y, W, H, rotation, opacity, corner radius and stroke weight (elsewhere `+10` on Mixed sets 10 and `*2` does nothing) (`field_tests`). Left: scrubbing a Mixed field (nothing happens), `x2`-style suffix edits, the pointer isn't wrapped to the other side of the screen; rates not compared with Figma's |
 | Transform box at small sizes | done | a press inside a layer smaller than its handles moves it, the nearest handle wins, handles answer just outside and are hidden under 16 px on screen; cursors follow each handle and the box's rotation |
 | Locked layers | done | selectable from the layers panel; no handles, not dragged with the rest of a selection |
+| Edit ▸ Set default properties: new layers take the selected layer's properties | done | from a shape (any layer but text): new rectangles, ellipses, polygons and stars drawn or clicked with their tools take its fills, strokes and their settings, effects, opacity, blend and corners; from a text layer: new text from the Text tool takes its fills and font (#2028). Silent in the help center on frames, lines and arrows: they keep their own look, as do layers made by commands; the defaults last for the session |
 | Smart selection spacing | partial | with layers in a row, a column or an aligned grid selected, the Layout section shows horizontal and vertical spacing ("Mixed" until set; typed, scrubbed, fractional and negative) and pink handles in the gaps on the canvas drag them, one undo step, Escape cancels (`arrange.spacing`; sizes, parents and offsets within each track kept; at most 2,000 layers; flow children, locked layers and layers inside instances left out). A ring at each layer's centre drags it to another place in a regular row, column or complete top-left-aligned grid: the others close up and make room around it with the gaps kept, and with Cmd/Ctrl held the two layers swap places instead, previewed live while dragging (`selection_reorder_tests`; no ring on a layer under 16 px on screen). Not covered: reordering irregular grids, and several marked layers moved together. Checked by its author on macOS and in the app on Windows (#402) |
 | Selection colors | partial | for a mixed selection the Design panel lists their solid and gradient paints (children and text ranges included; hidden paints, masks, images, patterns and boolean operands left out; styles and variables listed apart): editing a colour changes every matching fill and stroke in one undo step, a row selects the layers that use it or applies a color style or color variable of the document, and a row linked to a style or variable detaches it, keeping the color (`selection.colors`, `selection.setPaint`, `selection.applyColorStyle`, `selection.bindColorVariable`, `selection.detachColor`, `selection.selectColor`). No library styles or variables from there, and no new style or variable from a row (#403) |
 | Keyboard box selection | done | Alt+Space on macOS, Ctrl+Space on Windows and Linux, or F8 (`select.area`): a box around the selection or in the middle of the view; arrows move it, Cmd/Ctrl+arrows or Shift+arrows size it (Shift with Cmd/Ctrl: farther), Enter selects like a marquee (Shift+Enter toggles, Cmd/Ctrl+Enter nested), Escape closes |
@@ -178,6 +179,7 @@ in the table. `crates/ui-egui/src/shortcut_keys_tests.rs` drives the keys a look
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-06 | patch | M1, #2028: Edit ▸ Set default properties copied the selected layer's properties into the Paste properties clipboard and nothing else, so a new rectangle drawn afterwards was still grey (and what Copy properties had copied was lost). The defaults are now kept apart (`Session::default_props`, one set for shapes and one for text): rectangles, ellipses, polygons and stars drawn or clicked with their tools take the shape defaults (`apply_copied_props`, the same rules as Paste properties: corners only where a layer has them), and new text from the Text tool takes a text layer's fills and font and is laid out at that size. Frames, sections, slices, lines, arrows, vectors and layers made by commands keep their own look. `edit.setDefaultProperties` answers `{for: shapes|text, properties}`. Tests: `default_props_tests` (3) |
 | 2026-11-04 | patch | M1, #1852: a press on one of the open gradient's handles or stops on the canvas is the colour picker's own, not a press outside it (Figma keeps the picker and the handles up while a handle or stop is dragged; the stops are made to be dragged: "You can click and drag a stop to change its placement on the gradient", Use gradients as a fill or stroke). The canvas took the press and began the drag, then the picker, drawn later in the same frame, saw a press outside its card and closed, committing the drag's interaction at once; the handles vanished with it and the drag went on without an undo step of its own. Now the picker stays while a gradient handle or stop drags, and the drag is one undo step; a press elsewhere on the canvas still closes it. A handle drag whose button goes up off the canvas (over a panel or the picker) ends there too, instead of waiting, uncommitted, to move the handle to the next press on the canvas. Tests: `colorpicker_selection_tests::dragging_a_gradient_handle_on_the_canvas_keeps_the_picker_open`, `colorpicker_selection_tests::a_gradient_drag_released_off_the_canvas_ends_there`. |
 | 2026-11-02 | patch | M8, #1875: a click with the Bend tool on a sharp point between two segments gives it handles along the line between its neighbours, a third of the way to each ("Click on a point or path where you want to add a curve", Edit vector layers); a click on a curved point still makes it sharp, a drag still sets the handles by hand, an endpoint is left alone. Between a handle's end and a point both within reach of the pointer, the nearer one on the page is hit (the handle on a tie), so a short path's point (its handles a few pixels long) can be clicked again. Before, only a drag curved a point, and a short one left two tiny handles in its direction. Tests: `vectoredit::tests::short_handles_leave_their_point_clickable`, `vectoredit::tests::a_bend_click_curves_a_sharp_point_between_its_neighbours`, `bend_tool_smooths_and_sharpens_points`. Numbers unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-02 | minor | M4, #1827: wrap style on a text layer (`WrapStyle`: Auto, Balance, Pretty): Balance re-breaks each paragraph at the narrowest width that keeps its line count (bisection over the greedy breaker, as browsers balance), Pretty narrows one of the last four lines just enough so the last line isn't one word; `text.wrapStyle`, `node.set wrapStyle` (`textWrap` too), inspect `wrapStyle`, Dev Mode CSS `text-wrap` (Tailwind `text-balance` / `text-pretty`), the Type settings control under Vertical trim. Per-paragraph settings, text-style support and the `.fig` import/export mapping stay open. Test: `text_behaviour_tests::balance_and_pretty_wrap_styles_break_lines_as_documented`. |