On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, bulia byak wrote:
On 1/29/07, Alan Horkan <horkana@...3...> wrote:
The dropdown is an artifact of before the Layers dialog existed, if you keep too many of these inkscape will look even more busy and look increasingly like an airplane cockpit. You said yourself the status bar is short of space so you should seriously consider retiring the layer dropdown sooner rather than later.
A much better solution that would satisfy everyone: a small layer-managing toolbar, with the current layer widget and perhaps some more buttons for common tasks such as adding/deleting layer and opening the Layers dialog.
We were asking that the layer widget be removed from the status bar for a while, but by all means add the proposed alyer toolbar if there is enough demand for it after the layer dropdown has been removed. (Or if there is a lot of call to have the widget back the change could be reverted.)
This toolbar would be placeable anywhere on the bars, next to other toolbars (similar to Xara's) or removed altogether.
unfortunately the toolbars in Gtk do not make it easy to put toolbars side by side as other programs are able to, which makes what you suggestion not impossible but substnatially more trouble to implement.