On Freitag, 8. Juli 2016 16:34:26 CEST Thorsten Behrens wrote: >> Regina Henschel wrote: >> In ODF the z-order is _completely different_ from the layer. > > Right. So the feature is mainly useful for quickly showing and hiding > subsets of the Drawing - and it's orthogonal to everything else, > including z-order & navigation order. > > Compare it to grouping or tagging, but it's without the hard-link when > e.g. moving grouped shapes around. > > As such it's helpful. And the before is no statement about the > usefulness of layers in the meaning of Inkscape, Gimp or the like.
As Tomaz pointed out, "To be honest, for Draw having layers that don't behave as majority of vector/raster editing programs out there is not the way to make Draw more familiar and useful for users." We have (meta) issues regarding layers, object selection, and a clean UI. The proposal is to have all document features in the navigator. And there could be either "restricted" access to layers in terms of attaching the z-order to layers, or we provide orthogonal view (e.g. per tabs) to layers, groups, and other aspects in the navigator. >From the usability POV I see clear advantages for the first option. The idea >to hide objects from layer a and b but keep others makes not much sense. And a >group over layer boundaries sounds also like a nightmare when you open the >drawing after some time. Cheers, Heiko -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
