Opened 7 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#17356 new enhancement
GUI should announce the Edit Layer similar to the Active layer — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Hb--- | Owned by: | team |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Core | Version: | latest |
| Keywords: | edit layer inactive | Cc: |
Description
The Edit layer is equal to the active layer when that is an OSM data layer. The Edit layer harbours the Selection.
If a non-data layer is activated all visual feedback, the zoom behaviour and else leads the user away from the Edit layer. But the Edit layer may have selected objects which can be changed with geometric actions like Orthogonalise Shape Q. Downloaded data is placed on the Edit layer and may destroy some edits. This overall behaviour is perhaps necessary, see #12863 and source:/trunk/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/gui/layer/MainLayerManager.java#L23 and not the focus of this feature request.
But the user needs to know which data layer the Edit layer is. Currently this is only shown in the Title bar of the Relation Editor and is missing in the main GUI. The layer panel should show this.
The tickets #6215 should be closed because of the new code written since then.
