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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0006724 | DarkRadiant | Map Editing | public | 23.06.2026 18:53 | 23.06.2026 18:55 |
| Reporter | Skaruts | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | N/A |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0006724: [Suggestion] improved layer management feature | ||||
| Description | I believe the way DR has been doing layer management could be substantially improved. Currently, you right-click a 2D-view to get access to your layer-management options at the bottom of the menu (Add To Layer, Remove From Layer, etc). My suggestion is that those options could be moved to the Layers panel's right-click menu, such that when you right-click a layer you'd have those options there instead. I think this would be more practical for managing layers. There are several issues with the current right-click menu that create friction to extensive usage of layers, which would go away with this improvement. The current menu limits how many layers you can feasibly use, as it will eventually grow bigger than your screen, and then you have to scroll with arrow buttons, which makes it very unwieldy for frequent usage. Finding layers in alphabetical order is also not as easy. I personally find myself adding prefixes to layer names so they get sorted by their hierarchical relationship to each other. For example: paths paths guard 1 paths guard 2 house house basement house basement sewer entrance house first floor house first floor foyer house first floor foyer staircase house roof These problems would not exist if we could use the Layers panel for this instead. The Layers panel already has layers laid out hierarchically, in whatever way you laid them out, so you always know where they are. And the hierarchical layout can also be collapsed, so it scales nicely to however many layers you want to have. | ||||
| Tags | gui, layers window, usability | ||||
