[scribus-dev] [Scribus 0010673]: Select on multiple layer

[Jean Ghali]

>> As developers of this feature, please remember that multilayer
>> selecting will give the chance to multilayer grouping; and after that
>> comes ungrouping. What will Scribus do with all the just released
>> objects that some time used to belong to different layers? Please, if
>> you have a chance to work on the point, let these objects return to
>> the original layers and don't -for God sake!- let them in the layer
>> were the group was, as Inkscape does. The reason is one often needs
>> to group so many objects that not delivering them to their original
>> layers results in a kind of image flattening.
> just tested: currently grouping is disabled if the items are on
> multiple layers.
> considering the problems you're pointing us to, this was probably a sane
> idea when creating the first implementation.
> now we can do better!
>
> please write a feature request if you want it to be enabled...

Hi,

I doubt we will implement grouping of objects in different layer anytime soon. We had
already that request and it was closed as won't fix. See
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1974. Several reasons for that :
1) grouping objects on different layer would imply moving them to the same layer : groups
are containers and grouped objects automatically belong to the group layer
2) as a consequence of 1) grouping elements on different layer could change the document
visual aspect in quite a few case case
3) even if there was not 1) most group properties could not be used in such case
(clipping, transparencies) : pdf, postscript simply do not allow such thing

Imho 1) and 3)  seriously impair the usability of that feature.

Regards,
Jean