Some tools (such as the various painting tools) are obvious to use, but other tools (specifically the move and transform tools, but also others such as the path tool) are less so.

As an example, the move tool will not complete its action until you either press enter or switch to another tool, causing inconsistencies in the user interface (in particular, the undo action does not change, and will continue to read e.g. "Undo Freehand Stroke"). As a side effect, Sketch users are unable to undo the action until switching to another tool, given they do not have a keyboard handy to complete the action.

It is furthermore not obvious, and the user is required to either read their way to the information, or stumble upon it by accident.

The solution to this issue is to give the user feedback as to what is going on, and the suggestion is to employ an overlay to give feedback and provide actions to complete long lasting actions without resorting to keyboard interaction.

An overlay for canvas pan/zoom/rotation is in the works by ahiemstra and it would be advantageous to reuse this work in this case as well. http://wstaw.org/m/2014/02/04/plasma-desktopEjt506.png is a screenshot of this code in action.

Reproducible: Always