Re: Dialogs, Layers Dialog [Re: Dia ChangeLog report for Mon Jul 7 07:23:02 2003 (UTC)]

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, TAZ Vukovic, Mirko wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:21:56 -0500
> > From: "TAZ Vukovic, Mirko" <mvukovic taz telusa com>
> > Reply-To: dia-list gnome org
> > To: "'dia-list gnome org'" <dia-list gnome org>
> > Subject: RE: Dialogs,
> >      Layers Dialog [Re: Dia ChangeLog report for Mon Jul 7 07:23:02 2003
> >     (UTC)]
> >
> > I use layers to organize my diagrams and mainly control visibility of
> > groups
>
> presumably by moving whole layers up and down

Visibility -- layers can be turned invisible, which is great.

> > organize diagrams and thoughts.
>
> The reason a bring this up at all is that I am particularly impressed at
> how well another program I was looking at handles groups and selections.

Which one was that?

> > (Usual disclaimer applies: thanks for the great work.  Hopefully one day
> > I get to contribute something).
>
> Thanks I have only used the layers once or twice for a background image,
> you have given me exactly the kind of real user feedback I wanted to
> hear.

Another good use I thought of:  Once autorouting becomes able to go around
other objects, it'd be nice to select which layer's objects it should go
around. 

-Lars

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