Without knowing much about the internals of Inkscape, I'd imagine that being fairly advanced graphics software, most of the graphics-level stuff required for animation & scaling will be already in place, and the difficult part will not be creating a flashy-looking animation, but rather designing a functionality that will be intuitive.

- Bryan

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 23:03, Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> wrote:

On 2010-12-04 19:53, Felipe Sanches wrote:
> 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.
> thanks,

I like the idea, also to be able to select items that are not
necessarily on top of each other, but are very close (this can be very
frustrating, requiring very precise mousing and/or zooming).

For shapes that are not on top of each other I think it should just be
like a kind of magnifier glass, but how would you propose to "pull
apart" completely covered shapes? I could imagine something could be
done that's similar to certain graph layout algorithms. But it would
have to be pretty fast.

The menu idea mentioned by Michael might also be an option, but I have
some (although it was brief) experience with something like that and
found it a bit inconvenient, especially as you have to make a coupling
between the text in the menu and the objects in your image. Thumbnails
would help, but if they're as small as icons they might be of limited
use, if they get larger it may just be more natural to have a zoom-like
behaviour. Also, such a menu solution could make it a bit more awkward
to also handle selecting non-overlapping (or partially overlapping), but
very close, shapes.

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