Comment 6 for bug 264912

I think Marks Idea of transplanting an entire layer to another open document is great. I'd personally be happy if I were to be able to select all from a particular layer including sublayers (the objects themselves in the layers) and then copy them to another layer in the same document. I would use this move objects between layers. For example when I start brainstorming a website then I realize everything is on one layer and I need to do the organization and grouping that I should done from the beginning (sloppy, I know). Problems with the current functionality though:

1)When you press ctrl-a objects in sublayers are not selected

2) You can't copy without changing focus from the layers window to the canvas by clicking on it, at which time selection will move to the layer the object you clicked on is in, which may not be the layer you want to select.

3) When objects are pasted they do not retain their original position.
My workaround for this is that I select all in the current layer with ctrl-a then group them, cut or copy then paste in the layer I want them to be in and then realign them using guides I placed previously (just realized I can set the x and y coordinates too!) and finally ungroup

I suggest maybe an option called "select all objects" in the layer right-click menu

I think it would be a great help to be able to move objects between layers and move entire layers between documents.

Thanks Mark for suggesting it and thanks to the Inscape team for continuing to make a great product