Felipe Sanches <juca@...360...> writes:
I have been using inkscape a lot recently and I noticed that sometimes it can
become very annoying to select svg elements that are in the middle of a pile of other elements.Thus, I was thinking that we could have a key-combo that would break appart all "hidden" shapes to allow you to select one of them, and after that, all shapes would be places back in their correct places. Sometimes I do something similar to that by hand, but an automated UI feature would be very useful. Also, it would be solely a visualization mode, not actualy modifying elements in the SVG DOM.I'd like to have some feedback on this idea.
There's something similar in the most recent version of Powerpoint for mac, I think. Only, instead of an expose-like effect, it shows the stack layered in 3d. Here's a description with a screenshot: http://www.joycescapade.com/2010/10/microsoft-office-for-mac-2011.html
But I believe there's an better way to implement something like this without having to create fancy motion graphics: suppose you have some modifier to the selection cursor so that when you click a point, Inkscape makes a query of all the shapes below the cursor, then opens something that looks like a context menu (near the cursor point, that is) with a list of shapes with thumbnails next to them where icons usually are. then you can select a shape from the list, which adds this shape to the existing selection. I think ALT + right-click is a good combo.