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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