I do not always like the way guides behave. I would like to see these options:
- Option to put guides on dedicated layer automatically.
- If this layer is locked it should still be possible to add guides to it, but not to change them without unlocking them.
- Option to exclude guides from marquee-style selection (drag selection)
- I liked the dedicated guide editor panel in Freehand a lot, maybe something like this could be added to AI as well. (A separate guides layer would go half-way towards this wish.)
- The best feature I ever saw in respect to guides comes from a freeware program, Google Sketchup: There is an option to change guides (and other geometry, btw) immediately after creating them by just typing the numerical position value. This would easily work for horizontal and vertical guides, and is *very* handy. Actually, their whole concept to drag guides out of any straight path is quite impressive. Talk about ease of use. (Please note that I do not compare AI to Sketchup as a whole, of course, just this single feature and their general attitude towards usability.)