You could suggest it as a roadmap item.
I am not sure how useful it would be or how the performance would be for larger documents. For example I have one I am working on with over 13000 path elements. I organize them by layers and groups.
Rob A.
On 7/17/08, Anthony Walter <sysrpl@...155...> wrote:
Hey all,
Is anyone working on something like this, or has it been considered before...
Adding a visual tree control to Inkscape which displays the following: your layers, groups, and vector shapes ... with names, thumbnails, blending, and toggles object/group/layer locked/visible states, as well as drag groups (1,2,3,4,none ect). This tree control would also have a setting to define the thumbnail size, and would allow for two way object selecting (i.e. select the obejcts in the tree, and they are selected in the drawing/select them in the drawing and they show as bold selected in the tree).
A mock up is here:
http://imagebot.org/snapshots/CF9400B2FB51AFBA269FF9F7FA373CBC.jpg
This would be useful in finding hidden/locked objects, or objects which are obscured below fully opaque objects, and also allow you to drag the object in to treee to relayer/regroup objects.
I know Inkscape has an xml editor, but this idea is so much than that that.
What do you guys think?