On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
> every now and then we stumble into someone really confused about what
> layers is top
> and bottom in the layer group page.
>
> To someone that's WMS savy and knows about the "painter model" there is
> little doubt,
> the first layer is at the bottom, the last one at the top, but the
> vertical stacking of layers
> in the dialog makes other think the first one is at the top.
>
> Suggestions on how to improve things:
> * add a text warning right above or below the table
> * Have a "top" and "bottom" labels show in the table itself (bottom in the
> first row, top
>   in the last one), since we are making
>   one arrow disappear, maybe we could show the label in its place?
>

What about just reversing it so that the stacking order reflects the
presentation on the page and vice versa? If that doesn't make sense then I
think the label idea is a good one.

>
> Feedback welcomed
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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