As stated in this bug:
"(Sorry)
to be explicit, "Circles" should be constrained to remain a
circle when either dimension is changed."
That's
probably right. However, I like the current behavior - I
would like an ellipse that fit around my text. Could we
rename the current ROCircle to be ROEllipse (and add related
code to handle this), and create a new ROCircle that
maintained itself as a Circle for those who want that
behavior?
I'd be
happy to take on doing this (or at least some of it) in the
next few days; I just need to understand how to submit the
changes (and if you want them).
-Chris