On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Lars Clausen wrote: > > 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. > > As Alan is implying, I probably won't code this at the present. However, > it got me thinking about the layer dialog and how to select the layers to > merge. Simple: Allow multiple layers to be selected at a time. These > would also be the layers that are active, i.e. allows objects to be > modified etc. Much better than adding a third toggle for each layer.
I was thinking more of merging down to the layer below and flatten image. > > 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. > > If you mean a layer menu among the main menus, how would you select the > layers to merge, then? A pop-up window? I like the actions to be as > close to the objects as possible, here for instance in the layer window. Menu items to select layers could be done (the gimp does this) but I dont intend to replace the Layer Dialog but rather to bring forward some of the functionality and make it easy to give keybindings to some of the actions (like Ctrl+Shift+N for New Layer). > > 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. > > The diagram tree could *definitely* do with an update, showing layers and > groups and subgroups as nodes in the tree. Any takers? The Diagram tree has so much functionality hidden in a context menu it was years before I realised it was even there (found it during an extended hunt through Dia looking for things to document). I would write some documentation on the Diagram Tree but I'd much rather see it overhauled and redesigned first. 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
