On Aug 25, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:30 PM, RRH wrote:


...In GIMP using Shift key we have opportunity

to hide/show layers. Shouldn't it be in Inkscape? One combination:

Shift+click on eye icon, shows/hides others; Shift+click on padlock icon,

locks/unlocks other layers. None menu is needed.


I'd love to see this feature soon, but this is opinion only a humble Inkscape

user. :) What's your view?


This indeed was discussed before in this list and considered useful.

It's just nobody has implemented it yet so far :-)


The main problem is that the stock widgets we are using do not respond with details on shift. In fact, we don't get a base event at all if shift is pressed.

It might only take someone investigating the specific elements being used to see how to possibly wire in the right signals.