Inkscape

Promote/demote layer

Bug #426147 reported by Will Pittenger on 2009-09-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #181490: Layer Management: Can't move layer into another as sublayer. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Inkscape	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

It seems strange, but I don't see any UI in the Layer menu or the Layer dialog to promote or demote a layer. I ended up going into the XML editor and doing it from there. I don't know if it makes sense for the Layer menu to have those options as it might get confusing.

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote on 2009-09-08:

Could you explain what the terms 'promote layer' and 'demote layer' mean?

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Will Pittenger (will-pittenger1) wrote on 2009-09-08:

Demote means to make the layer a child or sublayer of another layer. Promote means to undo a demotion.

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote on 2009-09-08:

possibly duplicate of
Bug #181490 in Inkscape: “Layer Management: Can't move layer into another as sublayer” ?
Bug #181473 in Inkscape: “drag-and-drop should reorder layers”

related bug reports:
Bug #175522 in Inkscape: “Feature Request - Layer Directory”
Bug #181364 in Inkscape: “Layers, Groups, & Objects”
Bug #378413 in Inkscape: “layers enhancement”

Bug #181578 in Inkscape: “hide/show/lock objects from XML tree view (like Illustrator layers)”

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jazzynico (jazzynico) wrote on 2009-09-09:

Bug #181490 is very close to this one.

~suv, all the layers wishlist reports you mention are now linked to the following blueprint:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/better-layer-management