Hi,
I want to be able to do website mockups within Inkscape.
It's already quite useful, and much nicer than using a
bitmap program like gimp.
However, mocking up different sections of a website with
different features and different page layout would be much
easier if layers could be toggled (much like choosing which
page you're editing), or (better still) if certain layers could
be easily grouped. Groups should be mutually exclusive,
so that selecting a different group would then switch off
other groups, and make pages in the selected group
visible.
Thumbnails would also be much more useful. I've tried to
just get by with named pages, but it gets confusing
quickly. Thumbnails showing me the different pages would
be much more intuitive and user-friendly.
Finally, a few locked/background/non-group layers would
be great for the overall site look.
To be clear: this would let me design a basic site logo,
copyright, and navbar in one background layer, but then
easily define new layers or groups for each section of the
site, and work on them all by just flicking between them.
Currently, doing this involves disabling the current layer's
visibility (and any other layers that are currently visible but
unwanted), searching through layers one at a time in the
combo box for what I want, enabling that layer's visibility
(and any other layers I want), and then trying to
remember what I had planned to do, and how it related to
the previous thing I was looking at, which has now been
out of sight for some time ;)
Probably the first major improvement would be a
toolbar-like layers list, rather than a combo box.
Hope you feel this is worth working at. Thanks for a great
app :)
See also
[ 1149763 ] Layers dialog enhancements
[ 1090011 ] layer dialog