Well, the problem with that is that I sometimes have more than 10 elements I want to move. As soon as I select something else I have to select 10 elements one after another again. Thats especially annoying when I want to move several elements above other elements. When I group those elements I just ...

Sometimes I group several elements to move the whole thing. The problem I encountered is simply that all elements will be moved into the same layer as soon as I group the elements. Is there any way to avoid that behavior?

This was my first Inkscape picture: http://www.bilderload.com/daten/baerTOEOT.png I made it into an oil painting later: http://www.bilderload.com/daten/barry7AJOY.jpg It looks much better in real but its not that easy to take a good photo of an oil painting. I call it "Barry's bad fur day".

He is lovin' it, obviously.