Feature request #14070
add buttons to layers panel to rearrange layers
| Status: | Open | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: | - | ||
| Category: | GUI | ||
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | |
| Easy fix?: | No | Copied to github as #: | 22080 |
Description
Drag-and-drop is sometimes not a very good way of rearranging layers. I frequently end up adding a layer to a group when I mean to put it above the group. I think having a "move layer up" and "move layer down" set of buttons on the layers panel would be helpful.
History
#1
Updated by Saber Razmjooei almost 9 years ago
- Category set to GUI
#2
Updated by Sebastian Dietrich almost 9 years ago
Note that move up and move down is ambigious when the previous/next entry is a group. Should the layer be moved into the group or not? The user should be given a means to decide what is going to happen, e.g. Ctrl-Click the buttons.
Example:
1. Layer 2. Group
Should moving down the Layer result in
1. Group 2. Layer
or
1. Group 1.1 Layer
#3
Updated by Jesse McMillan almost 9 years ago
Good idea Sebastian,
for that matter, another idea would be to be able to use keyboard shortcuts. For instance, with a layer selected in the layers panel:
shift + up: move layer up
shift + down: move layer down
control + shift + up: move into group above, or if top item in group move out of group
control + shift + down: move into group below, or if bottom item in group move out of group
#4
Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 7 years ago
- Easy fix? set to No