Layer Management: Can't move layer into another as sublayer
Bug #181490 reported by
Martin Andersen
This bug affects 6 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inkscape |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
|
John Smith | ||
Bug Description
There is no way to move an existing layer into another as a sublayer. If you expand a layer to show sublayers, then click to move the layer above down, it will go below the first layer, skipping its sublayers. Illustrator allows drag-and-drop onto a layer to make a layer into a sublayer of another.
| Changed in inkscape: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| tags: | added: ui ui-selection-group-layer |
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| Rena Kunisaki (i-am-inuyasha) wrote | #1 |
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| wadadliblue (wadadliblue) wrote | #2 |
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| Will Pittenger (will-pittenger1) wrote | #3 |
| tags: |
added: layers removed: ui-selection-group-layer |
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| John Smith (john-smithi) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in inkscape: | |
| assignee: | nobody → John Smith (john-smithi) |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
| Changed in inkscape: | |
| milestone: | none → 0.49 |
| Changed in inkscape: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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Skipping the sublayers is correct behaviour; the issue is a lack of a way to turn a layer into a sublayer.
Workaround: arrange the layers as you'd like them to be arranged within the parent (i.e. ensure there are no others between them). Create the parent layer *below* the lowest child. Open the XML editor. Find the parent layer - due to the way SVG orders layers, it should be *above* the children in the XML hierarchy. Indent each of the children from top to bottom, making them sublayers of the parent.
Be sure to indent the child that is immediately below the parent in the XML tree, as indenting makes it a child of the node immediately above.