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. This toolbar would be placeable anywhere on the bars, next to other toolbars (similar to Xara's) or removed altogether. Sample applies to the selected style indicator. By the default they would be placed where they are now, but draggable anywhere.