Feature request: improve keyboard usage of Layers + Objects dialog
Summary:
The Layers and Objects dialog has some support for using by keyboard, but not all actions can be accomplished by keyboard only.
Steps to reproduce:
- open Inkscape
- test the L&O dialog with just the keyboard
What happened?
- Space bar triggers label editing
-
+
sometimes acts on the canvas, and sometimes expands the current layer item (only if not expanded yet) - same for - (contraction, of course)
- there does not seem to be a way to select one or more layers by keyboard
- there does not seem to be a way to move one or more layers by keyboard
- PgUp / PgDwn do something different in the dialog / on canvas
- the asterisk key switches to star tool
What should have happened?
- Space bar should select
- Shift+arrows should add all items travelled through to selection
- if possible, + and - should not sometimes zoom and sometimes expand, when the dialog has focus
- asterisk should expand all, not switch to star tool
- some good shortcuts need to be found for moving the selection up or down, possibly also for moving up/down in hierarchy, for starting to edit a name, maybe for toggling lock and visibility?
- a shortcut for adding a layer already exists with Ctrl+Shift+N, deleting works with Del/Backspace
- someone needs to check whether there are other things that I've forgotten here. Collapse all? Switch between modes?
Version info
Inkscape 1.2-dev (8e25dab68f, 2022-01-22)
GLib version: 2.64.6
GTK version: 3.24.20
glibmm version: 2.64.2
gtkmm version: 3.24.2
libxml2 version: 2.9.10
libxslt version: 1.1.34
Cairo version: 1.16.0
Pango version: 1.44.7
HarfBuzz version: 2.6.4
OS version: Linux Mint 20.3
Edited by Maren Hachmann