This is absolutely great, I've been following Germano's work on improving the snap system and it is most welcome improvement. This was probably one of my last remaining gripes with Blender.

I see you can already select multiple snapping modes from the popover menu. Will it also be possible to have several snap targets active at the same time, say like Closest and Active?

This could somewhat lessen the lack of ability to freely choosing a snap target before transform.

Thanks for all the great work @Germano Cavalcante (mano-wii), keep it up!

In D3400#79122, @Duarte Farrajota Ramos (duarteframos) wrote:

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Will it also be possible to have several snap targets active at the same time, say like Closest and Active? (...)

Is that really desirable? Some targets are already somewhat confusing (like Closest, which takes the point from the bound box instead of the object).
Other confusing issues are:

• Target: Median is the same as Target: Center + Pivot Point: Median Point
• Target: Active is the same as Target: Center + Pivot Point: Active Element

  I think mixing them would make things more confusing. But it is an area that has a lot to improve on.

In D3400#79143, @Germano Cavalcante (mano-wii) wrote:

In D3400#79122, @Duarte Farrajota Ramos (duarteframos) wrote:

Some targets are already somewhat confusing (like Closest, which takes the point from the bound box instead of the object).

I was under the impression that Closest took the closest vertex, my reasoning was that by combining both Closest and Active, maybe I misunderstood how those work.
Ideally the Closest option would just take as target the vertex closest to the cursor, much like Inkscape does, in the absence of actually discretely specifying a base point for transforms.

I suppose that would require far deeper changes out of scope for this task.

Noticed new scenes have no mode set.

Nice improvement!
Since we can enable more than one snap mode per time, maybe we shoud replace the active snap popover icon with a more general text like "Snap Mode".
It would be more consistent to other popovers we already have (like Shading, Overlays,...) and also be more communicative to new users.

In D3400#79666, @Leandro Cavalheiro (lcs_cavalheiro) wrote:

Since we can enable more than one snap mode per time, maybe we shoud replace the active snap popover icon with a more general text like "Snap Mode".

I agree that it's strange to see just one icon with more than one mode enabled, but I think users would rather check out the current active mode without opening the popover.

After these improvements snapping to bezier curve objects doesn't seem to be working as expected in 2.8.
There seems to be some sort of offset when spanning curves to other geometry. Snapping meshed to curves appears to work as expected though.

In 2.79	In 2.8

The closest option searches for the closest point in the bound box.
You can check what is happening by enabling the Bounds view in the Viewport Display panel of the object,
The problem is more related to the new changes in depsgraph than in the patch.

I tried to fix this bug this way: rB24677cf77bbd. But this commit was reversed because of the use of mutexes.

@Sergey Sharybin (sergey) or @Bastien Montagne (mont29), is this a known problem?

In D3400#89842, @Germano Cavalcante (mano-wii) wrote:

You can check what is happening by enabling the Bounds view in the Viewport Display panel of the object,

Indeed, you are right, turning on bounds shows the issue clearly. It seems the bounding box for curves is being wrongly calculated, there always appears to be a large buffer around it.
After entering and exiting Edit Mode the bounding box is recalculated and briefly displays as expected, but as soon as you transform again, it reverts to the previous wrong solution.