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16 Nov
2003
16 Nov
'03
9:43 p.m.
Last night, I hammered out the most important part of implementing layers -- with latest CVS, you can use the XML editor to set the inkscape:groupmode attribute of a group to "layer", and be able to edit its children directly.
There's still a lot of UI and refinement work to do, however; I've outlined it on the Wiki here:
http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DocumentLayers
-mental