Recursive clone unlink in groups

Bug #293896 reported by quazgar
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Inkscape
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Inkscape should have a possibility to unlink everything in a selection, also within groups. Unlinking is necessary for copy&pasting between images, and many groups containing one clone each is very common for automatically created files (exported from openstreetmap, for example).

A little bit of pseudocode, in case I didn't express myself clearly enough: ;)

deep_unlink(object):
  if is_clone(object):
    unlink(object)
  if is_group(object):
    for_each(object.subobject):
      deep_unlink(subobject)

Tags: clones

Related branches

nightrow (jb-benoit)
Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
summary: - "Deep" unlink
+ Recursive unlink in groups
Changed in inkscape:
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - Recursive unlink in groups
+ Recursive clone unlink in groups
su_v (suv-lp)
tags: added: clones
Revision history for this message
Alexander Brock (brock-alexander) wrote :

I need that functionality too and I could easily implement it.

If an object is clipped / masked with a clone of a (not selected) path, should that be unlinked too?

Revision history for this message
Alexander Brock (brock-alexander) wrote :

Should that be a separate menu item?

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