Comment 3 for bug 174052

When no object is selected, the Drawing button becomes a temporary default fall-back for the Selection button. The export will always work with the Selection button, regardless of whether an object is selected or not. "When nothing is selected, everything is selected."

To me, it seems that making the button inactive when no selection exists would only make procedures more complicated. For instance, if I have a drawing with several objects and I want to have individual bitmaps of them, I can push the Selection button, select the first object, Export, select the next one, Export, etc. With your suggestion, it would be: select the first object, push the Selection button, Export, select the next object, push the Selection button, Export, etc, as the button would be inactivated at the point when one object is unselected prior to the next becoming selected.