Inkscape

layer groups/outline

Bug #172045 reported by Markus Elfring
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Bug Description

How do you think about groups of layers?
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Layers.html

I am interested in an outline editor for this application area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner

Tags: layers ui
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Ryan Lerch (ryanlerch) wrote :

im not sure what is being suggested here, can you elaborate further?

Changed in inkscape:
status: New → Incomplete
importance: Undecided → Unknown
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Markus Elfring (elfring) wrote :

I suggest to work with hierarchical relationships. I imagine to manage the grouping of layers in a tree view.

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Markus Elfring (elfring) wrote :

I assume that this is an use case that will be supported by an ObjectTree window.
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/DocumentLayers

Bryce Harrington (bryce)
Changed in inkscape:
importance: Unknown → Undecided
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ScislaC (scislac) wrote :

Elfring,

The heirarchy is already possible with layers. If you use the Layer dialog, it does support sub-layers as well.

Changed in inkscape:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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ScislaC (scislac) wrote :

Elfring,

The hierarchy is already possible with layers. If you use the Layer dialog, it does support sub-layers as well.

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Markus Elfring (elfring) wrote :

A hierarchical reorganisation is not supported be the dialogue " Layers..." (Shift+Strg+L) so far.
I do also not see that sub-layers can be created over the menu.

I have got the impression that layers can be reordered (up/down) but are not groupable by the current user interface.

Changed in inkscape:
assignee: nobody → scislac
status: Invalid → New
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Markus Elfring (elfring) wrote : Re: Adjustments for layer groups/outline

I have discovered that sublayers can be created if a specific option was selected in the dialogue "Add layer".

There is already a kind of tree view involved in the dialogue "Layers...".
- It seems that there are no GUI controls available to change the hierarchy level. (I do not want to jump to the XML editor view.)
- A node can not be dragged to an other position.

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Alexandre Prokoudine (alexandre-prokoudine) wrote :

Indeed, it's not possible to change hierarchy level yet

Hystrix (hystrix-)
Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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ScislaC (scislac) wrote :

Not my area of expertise. Don't know how it got assigned to me.

Changed in inkscape:
assignee: scislac → nobody
su_v (suv-lp)
tags: added: layers
removed: ui-selection-group-layer
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