Moving layers in Object dialog : strange behaviour

[Gwenaël Q.]

When moving layers in Object dialog, unexpected behaviours occur.

First create a new blank file with 3 empty layers :

- File > New
- Maj+Ctrl+L
- click Button "Add a new Layer" (with "new layer above" option) twice : now three (empty) layers.
- Open object dialog

layers are stacked like this :

Layer3
Layer2
Layer1

From this situation, 2 unexpected behaviour can occur in the object dialog :

# weird behaviour 1 :

Drag'n'dropping layer 1 into layer 3 won't work : layer 1 is now between layer 3 and 2 but not a sublayer of 3. Drag'n'dropping layer 2 instead of 1 into layer 3 will work as expected : layer 2 now sublayer of 3.

# weird behaviour 2 :

- Drag'n'drop layer 2 into layer 3 : layer 2 now sublayer of 3 (OK)
- Drag'n'drop layer 1 into layer 3 : Layer 2 is no more sublayer of 3 and layer 1 is located beetween layer 3 and 2 once again. Unexpected behaviour.

Configuration :

Inkscape 0.92.3 (2405546, 2018-03-11) on window 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10.

PS : I already mentionned this bug there : http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=34289

[TylerDurden (8thrule)]

I can confirm erratic behavior when dragging /reordering within the Objects dialog.
Win 8.1 64, Inkscape 0.92.2.

It is easy to see the issue by having the xml editor open while using the Objects dialog.

[Gwenaël Q. (gwenaelq)]

Same behaviour on Inkscape Inkscape 0.92.4 (5da689c313, 2019-01-14) on windows 8.1

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

re-issued as: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/155

[Nathan Lee (nathan.lee)]

Since this issue has been re-issued, marking this as closed
(that's all invalid means). This is part of the bug migration
http://alpha.inkscape.org/bug-migration/

Please feel free to file new bugs about the issues you're seeing at
http://inkscape.org/report.