improve layer handling with thumbnails
Migrated (and triaged) from https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170533
First reported 2005-01-05
Part 1 of 2
Summary:
- Thumbnails in Layers/Objects dialogs
The idea:
I want to be able to do website mockups within Inkscape. It's already quite useful, and much nicer than using a bitmap program like GIMP.
However, mocking up different sections of a website with different features and page layouts would be much easier if layers could be toggled much like choosing which page you're editing. Better still, if certain layers could be easily grouped. Groups should be mutually exclusive, so that selecting a different group would then switch off other groups, and make pages in the selected group visible.
Thumbnails would also be much more useful. I've tried to just get by with named pages, but it gets confusing quickly. Thumbnails showing me the different pages would be much more intuitive and user-friendly.
Finally, a few locked/background/non-group layers would be great for the overall site look.
To be clear: this would let me design a basic site logo, copyright, and navbar in one background layer, but then easily define new layers or groups for each section of the site, and work on them all by just flicking between them.
Currently, doing this involves disabling the current layer's visibility (and any other layers that are currently visible but unwanted), searching through layers one at a time in the combo box for what I want, enabling that layer's visibility (and any other layers I want), and then trying to remember what I had planned to do, and how it related to the previous thing I was looking at, which has now been out of sight for some time.
Probably the first major improvement would be a toolbar-like layers list, rather than a combo box.
Additional Information/Comments:
- This issue was officially assigned to John Smith but it appears only development on Layer Thumbnails
- John Smith submitted this patch on 2012-07-05
- su_v submitted this gdb crash report and the offending svg and second offending svg on 2012-07-05
- John Smith submitted this patch on 2012-08-31
- No further development since 2012-10-08