Show Live Shape controls for grouped objects as before
The shape option in the Transform panel is lost when grouping or compounding rectangular or star shape objects.
This is very difficult to use because it used to be possible to change the shape object's radius all at once, even when grouped together.
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I can guess this is a consequence of the fixed bug live shapes had... when grouped, Ai treated the resulting group as live shape, calculating the size wrong (http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/42164089) AND exposing the controls over children as a side effect...
This is controversial... Ai paradigm is 'all children selected means the parent object is selected' (this is why this request exists, to let us see the point controls for a path even when it’s fully selected, — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/48962273)
I understand that was useful, but I doubt this can be introduced back... After all, this was not perfect even then — if the selection had any other non-rectangle object within, Ai showed no rectangle-specific controls. And this logic works here — when you select a group, you also have the group itself selected, and it’s not a rectangle :)
What I don’t agree with though — if I isolate a group with only rectangles in it, selecting all inside should show the rectangle-specific controls! Selecting all in a box should mean selecting the box, while we IN the box... So I upvote THIS.