Toggle to bring selected objects to front for quick editing

Bug #179147 reported by Bálint Magyar
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Inkscape
Confirmed
Wishlist
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Bug Description

It would be useful if there was a toggleable feature to temporarily bring the selected objects to front. When the toggle is on, selected objects are automatically brought to front. Once the toggle is off, any objects that have been raised return to their original Z position. That way, it would be easier to edit objects that are obstructed by other objects. Maybe even something like raise-on-hover would work nicely.

For a default keyboard shortcut, Caps Lock or Scroll Lock would be ideal, since it's not really used apart from rare cases of uppercase text entry, and the user would instantly have feedback from the keyboard LED about the status of the toggle.

Bálint Magyar (balintm)
description: updated
prkos (prkos)
Changed in inkscape:
status: New → Confirmed
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
jazzynico (jazzynico)
tags: added: selection shortcuts ui
Revision history for this message
John Smith (john-smithi) wrote :

Alt+MouseWheel cycles the selection through all the objects currently under the cursor.

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