Re: [libreoffice-design] Behavior on copying single drawing objects

Hi,

Regina Henschel wrote on 08-04-18 15:20:

> on our work to make layers ODF conform, Armin and me decided to identify
> the layer to which an objects belong internally no longer by a numeric
> ID but by the layer name and to show a display-name to the user. That
> gives the opportunity to improve copy&paste behavior.

Nice!

> We plan to keep the layer of the objects, if copy&paste happens on the
> same page, see https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33170#c2
>
> Do you agree to that?

I have no reason (so far) to choose for one or another. But I do have
related questions:
- Will it be easy (context menu?) to change the layer of an object?
- Will Paste-Special offer the choice of the layer?

> We need advise, what should happen, if an object is copy&pasted into a
> different page of the same document. In the end of the project it will
> be possible, that pages of a document may have different layer-sets.
> Similar problem is  pasting into a different document. Possible actions
> e.g.

And the behaviour could be different for the original and the new
document..?

> a) paste all into the active layer
> b) paste objects into that layer, which has the same name, and on the
> active layer in case no such layer exists
> c) paste objects into that layer, which has the same name, and generate
> a new layer in case no such layer exists.
> d) others?

Thanks,
Cor


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