Am Sonntag, 5. Februar 2012 schrub Drechsel Wolf:
Hi everybody,
Hi.
when building inkscape files with some 10 or 20 layers, I quite often happen to somewhere get lost of an object. By accident it is in a layer I didnt intend it to be. And it's quite a struggle to find such a "lost" object - meaning to find out at which layer it actually happens to be.
Jason's method described below undoubtedly works - but takes some time and effort.
Does it make sense to issue a feature request "assigning objects to layers" ? An idea could be to define a combination of keys or mouse buttons - and a little yellow text box is displayed at mouse over, telling me, which layer does contain that object.
Or did I miss a feature already in place?
When selecting an object, the drop down box at the bottom shows the layer.
Yours, Wolf
I usually go through my layers turning off visibility on all, flicking them back on/off one at a time. And sometimes I will find that parts of my drawing are actually not on any of the layers. For example, if I turn off visibility on all layers, the objects in question are still visible.
At that point I marqee-select the non-layered objects, cut and paste them into a new layer.
I don't know if this is exactly what you are asking, but that's how I go about determining which layer an object is on. And it also addresses the somewhat confusing problem of objects that are not associated with any of the existing layers.
Jason Simanek