Re: eye-icon

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon freemail ru>]

Greetings, vwf!

> This window can be confusing. One improvement can be the use of two
> icons for active/off (gray-out), instead of switching an icon on/off.

If you're familiar with GIMP, you won't have any confusion.
May be a small addition to the list control tool, to make all layers
visible/hidden (and one more to reset linking states back to current layer
only for all layers) would help.

> In that same window the arrow-icon on/off remains a confusing event for
> me: when I select a layer, other icons switch on/off in respons.

This is a long-standing issue. Me, personally, I would prefer the link states
be stored for each layer separately.

> Finally, it can be very hard to find out on which layer an item is.

Depends, what you are doing with your diagram.

> No problem with two layers, but my current diagram has 6 and when I placed
> an item on the wrong layer it requires some layer on/off switching to
> find out on what layer it went.

Same is true for many other programs that use layers.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon freemail ru) 13.04.2013, <16:55>

Sorry for my terrible english...