Comment 4 for bug 264912

I think the importance of this should be higher than wishlist. I've been an amateur Illustrator user and the huge difference in using Inkscape was that I seemed to be working blind. In the end I think the difference came down to Illustrator automatically assigning a layer or visible title to each element that was drawn. I understand Layers to be an integral part of vector art and therefore the portability of these layers which have been produced in a deliberate heirachy should be more important than wishing it could remain intact when the component or stack of components is transferred. Adobe have an obscure option to retain the layer structure when copying. I don't know that that is so important, it should be by default.