On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Lars Clausen wrote: > Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 16:12:34 +0100 (CET) > From: Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: discussions about usage and development of dia > <[email protected]> > To: discussions about usage and development of dia <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: merging layers > > Robert sagde: > > I think I may've went too crazy with layers on my first diagram. > > > > At the time I figured I could always Cut/Paste between layers so merging > > layers would never be a big deal. > > Now I find that cutting & pasteing severes connections (and it makes > > perect sense that it does). > > > > I'd like to consolidate a few layers together. > > Is there an easy way to do this? > > Or, is there a mode to let you move & edit all objects from all layers > > when making big changes? > > Alan's workaround of using an editor should indeed work. Version 0.94 > also allows you to select which layersyou can connect to, but not which > ones you can select in. It would be easy to add a "merge layers" function > to the layers dialog, I wouldn't mind seeing that.
I certainly wouldn't mind seeing it either, with the emphasis on seeing it. I think Dia has a lot of great functionality including Layers that users perhaps are not making the most of because of how they are presented. I think this would force me to resurrect my attempts to add a Layer menu and bring more of this functiality to the surface. A Layer menu would provide an ideal place to put "Merge Layers" and even more layer functionality and also make it easier to assign keybindings to the Layer funcationality without needing to do something crazy like hide away the features in a context menu of a dialog. There are other potential ways of approaching the general problem of moving things around more easily like maybe enabling drag and drop from the Diagram Tree, especially if the Diagram Tree represented Layers and groups as branches of the tree (and I wanted an excuse to mention how Adobe Photoshop has 'layer groups' which makes the Layers dialog look a lot more like a tree view of the document). Plenty of food for thought. Sincerely Alan Horkan Free SVG Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Dia is for Diagrams http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Alan's Journal http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ Inkscape, Draw Freely http://inkscape.org Abiword is Awesome http://www.abisource.com _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
