Display mode per layer

Originator: NO

> if the layer uses a lot of blur and you don't need to see it all to
design.

It always helps to understand the problem a user is trying to solve as
there is never enough room to offer every possible option. Just to make
sure I understand you correctly you think it would be useful to be able to
set layers to outline mode rather than hide the layer completely?

If your real concern is speed it might be better to turn on full Wireframe
(Outline) mode and use the keybinding to quickly toggle back to full view
only as needed. This does sound like a resonable suggestion but I want to
make sure developers consider the options and maybe even find a better way
to solve the real problem you are facing (speed for example).

Originator: YES

> I understand you correctly you think it would be useful to be able to
> set layers to outline mode rather than hide the layer completely?
Yes.

>If your real concern is speed it might be better to turn on full
Wireframe
>(Outline) mode and use the keybinding to quickly toggle back to full
view
>only as needed.
Speed is a big issue. I run Inkscape (0.45 as of now) on Kubuntu dapper on
an AMD 1ghz Athlon (1gig RAM, big drive) and I find it to be very slow
(it's in good company with all GTK apps, so not picking on it). Redraw is a
matter of seconds with lots of black rectangles filling in. Anything that
can squeeze speed would be a bonus.

I think having a layer of outlines while working above it on a normal
layer is very useful, your focus is on *this* layer, but you are lining
things up with the ones below. Hiding them won't do and flipping to
all-outline is not always convenient.

Put this down to an "I miss this feature" suggestion ;)

> This does sound like a resonable suggestion but I want to
>make sure developers consider the options and maybe even find a better
way
>to solve the real problem you are facing (speed for example).
For sure, it just came to me and I thought I had to make a record of it
just in case.

Originator: NO

Thanks for the well thought out feedback, and thanks for using Inkscape.

Hey - thanks to all you coders out there making Inkscape the shining jewel of open source!
And great news to get an email saying the suggestion is confirmed.

Best to you,
Donn.

Renaming the report to take the "no filters" mode into account (see duplicate Bug #1181824 "display mode for layers required").

Another really useful outline-mode-per-layer use case is for tracing bitmaps. I'd love to be able to hide stroke/fill to adjust a vector layer to match an underlying bitmap, but the current all-or-nothing outline mode turns bitmaps into simple boxes.

Instead, I end up removing all styling from my vectors to do the adjustment (or, really, avoid doing styling until I've decided that the trace is good enough).