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

On 08.04.2018 15:20, Regina Henschel wrote:
> 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

Doubt that an internal object identification by name is a good idea. You have to suppress identical 
naming and on paste you add a number (Foo1). But that's up to development. From the user 
perspective I don't care.
 
> 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.
> 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?

As an example

Page 1
 Layer "Foo"
  Shape_1
  Group_1 
   Shape_2
   Shape_3
 Layer_Bar
Page 2
 Default layer

If you copy/move Shape_1 from Layer_Foo to Page 2 it should affect only this object, and Shape_1 is 
placed on the default layer. If the user copy/pastes a group, all objects are taken. And we need a 
separate function for the layer. So copying Layer_Bar into page 2 adds it likewise when creating a 
new layer and pasting just all objects from Layer_Bar. Differently to the ctrl+a,ctrl+c/x 
interaction, I would include all hidden elements too for the layer copy action..

Cheers,
Heiko

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