# Miscellaneous suggestions **URL:** \ **Category:** Help us improve Penpot\ **Created:** [September 17, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/miscellaneous-suggestions/1083 "2022-09-17T13:24:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Voxy](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/voxy/32/1104_2.png) [@Voxy](https://community.penpot.app/u/Voxy)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/miscellaneous-suggestions/1083/1 "2022-09-17T13:24:46Z")
Hey folks! Like many new members, I’m left disillusioned by the recent news that Adobe is trying to cannibalize the market yet again by buying out Figma. Penpot has a lot of potential as an alternative, plus it’s always good to support FOSS projects! 😊 However, it’s lacking a few features that I really got accustomed to in my workflow and that I genuinely can’t give up on. I should probably mention that while I do use Figma for its intended purpose of UI/UX design and prototyping, I’ve found it to be a great tool for vector illustration and icon design - one that’s lightweight and that I find very pleasant to use. Most of my suggestions will align with that particular usage I’d make of Penpot, so I don’t really have any particular expectations, I’m sure there are many more pressing additions to make that would actually benefit UI/UX designers more, and that’s totally OK! But still, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to share them! 🙂 With that said, here are some features I’d really like to see make their way to the app: - Applying rounded corners to any shape, including boolean groups and individual nodes. I use that a lot to create smooth, complex shapes with minimal hassle! - Creating arcs out of circles. - Mask shapes taking effects (blur, shadows) into account. Again, only really useful for illustration, as it lets me do complex shading… - And while we’re at it, maybe adding a handy little shortcut icon for masking right next to the boolean/flatten ones? - When editing a node, having the ability for both handles to always have the same length for more uniform shape tweaking. - Being able to click & drag on a value box to change said value. - Allowing an image box to have different fit modes, like cover, contain, or tiling to allow the use of patterns. That’s all I can really think of currently, if I have any more suggestions I’ll add them in further posts. Oh, and if one of my suggestions turns out to already be a thing that I was too dumb to notice, please let me know as well. 😛 Thanks for your time, keep up the good work and good luck! \<3 ---
**Author:** ![Solinus839](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/solinus839/32/3264_2.png) [@Solinus839](https://community.penpot.app/u/Solinus839)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 12:32pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/miscellaneous-suggestions/1083/2 "2022-09-19T12:32:05Z")
I better hope they add these features to PenPot as soon as they can before Figma inevitably becomes a bug infested mess, horribly overpriced, or both Am looking forward to the release of Auto layout in PenPot within a month ---
**Author:** ![jdittrich](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/jdittrich/32/100_2.png) [@jdittrich](https://community.penpot.app/u/jdittrich)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/miscellaneous-suggestions/1083/3 "2022-09-19T12:35:15Z")
@Voxy: Thanks for your suggestions – a very thoughtful post with good ideas! I do not use Penpot for illustrations, but > [@Voxy](#): > > Being able to click & drag on a value box to change said value. and > [@Voxy](#): > > Allowing an image box to have different fit modes, like cover, contain, or tiling to allow the use of patterns. would be also useful for non-illustration users like me! ---
**Author:** ![carolina.portugal](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/carolina.portugal/32/36_2.png) [@carolina.portugal](https://community.penpot.app/u/carolina.portugal)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/miscellaneous-suggestions/1083/4 "2022-09-21T16:07:48Z")
Hi @Voxy i will try to address some of this suggestion. About paths in general, we have a list of improvements. We are planning to have some time focused on implementing most of them. You can take a look at them by filtering the backlog using the word “path”: [Taiga](https://tree.taiga.io/project/penpot/backlog). For example: 1. [Rounded corners](https://tree.taiga.io/project/penpot/us/3109) 2. [Add tools for arcs](https://tree.taiga.io/project/penpot/us/1672?backlog-q=arcs&no-milestone=1) [Draggable inputs](https://tree.taiga.io/project/penpot/us/4080) are also something that the team have talked before, and it has recently been added to our backlog.