Noun / verb vs. verb / noun

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Most actions should still support "verb noun": 1. start a command; 2. select entities to work on.

Please report an issue, if changes are needed for a particular action.

"Offset" is one area to improve for sure. Ideally, offset should work for ellipses/hyperbolae/parabolae, and further on any continuous contours. It's a little bit complex to reach those goals though.

Limited development time is major constraint here.

SteveIn44444 wrote

I have been using LibreCAD for a year or so. Once I adjusted (I'm a previous autocad user) I found it to be pretty good overall. Can't beat the price! Recently, I downloaded the latest release for my new pc and found some changes. I notice that some commands now operate in reverse of what they did previously. Offset is an example. First, the command line is broken for entering this command without the menu, which is important to anyone that has significant history with 2d cad. Second, it now requires that you select an entity to offset before the command is activated (noun verb, and it was previously verb noun). This is a mistake that hurts productivity. When you can select the command first (and enter a new offset value on the command line as needed, which is now also broken) it allows the ability to continue selecting entities on the fly, which is much faster than having to exit the command each time, select an entity, and then re-enter the command. I hope to see you revert to the old behavior in the future.

well, under the active development it might be that things changes.  

Which version of LibreCAD do you use?

As of 2.2.2-alpha:

As far as I can see - the right command for the "offset" - it's still "offset" or "modoffset" (or short form - "mo" or "moff"). If you prefer using other command - please edit commands aliases file.

Please report what is broken specifically in command line.

Regarding selection of entity - that's common case indeed. When offset is invoked (as well as some other commands) - if there are selected entities, the command will be applied to them. If it's invoked via context popup menu on the entity - the offset is applied to that entity.

In other cases - the user is prompted to select entities first to which the command will be applied.

Actually, I don't see something unusual with with such behavior - it's consistent with other commands.

What may be improved as I can see - is staying in the entity selection mode after applying the command. That will let the user to apply the offset on several entities easier - I'll change this.

P.S - for some commands, the command line might be not the most optimal tool, as such commands rely on mouse and so they can't be performed fully via command line. In such cases, I suppose specifying command's options via "Tool Options" toolbar is more productive than switching back to the command line. Plus, at least as of today, for some commands, the "Tool Options" supports more command' parameters than are available via command line.