I was watching this youtube video showing how to do some drawings on Inkscape. Some questions arised.
It seems the drawing is quite fast but I can see that some actions are triggered either by keystrokes or something quick to perform.
So I wonder:
- How to get rid of the stroke faster than the traditional (X) on the Fill & Stroke dialog.
- Is there a way to quickly reduce the thickness of a stroke (keyboard shortcut)
- Is there a way I can search for all the components within a layer

Seems I found a some answers on the keyboard guide here:
http://inkscape.org/doc/keys046.html

However still not the solution I was hoping for. At the moment what I have done is use the dropper (d) and (Shift click) to select a "opacity = 0" space. Which will turn the stroke to invisible. Althought not really removing it.

Still no answer on the stroke width besides using the dialog.

An item explorer would be nice, I know the XML editor does have the possibility to list the elements on the XML but still not something that is as easy to search for.

I am attaching a screenshot of the item explorer within a page. Would be great to have something similar for items on the layer.

JZA wrote:- How to get rid of the stroke faster than the traditional (X) on the Fill & Stroke dialog.
- Is there a way to quickly reduce the thickness of a stroke (keyboard shortcut)

Rather than using the Fill & Stroke dialogue you can shift-click on the leftmost swatch in the palette below the drawing area to set the stroke to transparent.
Alternatively you can right-click on the Stroke swatch at the bottom left of the window and select "Remove Stroke" to remove it entirely.

To quickly reduce the thickness of a stroke - albeit only in predefined steps and not using a keyboard shortcut - you can right-click on the small number next to the stroke swatch and pick from the menu (where you'll also find a "Remove" option as another way to remove it entirely). You can also drag on that number to quickly increase/decrease the stroke width, although I've never found it to be a particularly responsive way to modify it on the machines that I use.

Please don't post multiple topics with the same questions you've asked in other topics. You have another topic for how artists use Inkscape, and another for the "item manager". I've answered both, and one of them has actually grown quite long. Any future duplicate messages will be deleted.

I dont see this as a duplicate, previous topic is about drawing techniques, while here is about the use of inkscape (I guess thats why this forum topic is about). One thing that I have struggled is locating items that have gone alfa on both strokes and fills, making it really hard to recover.

I dont see how thi feature request resemble the previous topic.

If you want me to stop asking on the forum, then thats another thing.

"drawing techniques on Inkscape" and "use of Inkscape for illustrators" is really not much different. I realize that you did ask a specific question in this topic, while the other one was more generalized. But the titles are very similar, and when I saw the "item manager" question for the 2nd time, I felt it was necessary to clarify forum rules.

You're more than welcome to continue to post questions, and we're more than happy to answer. But it gets tedious for us when one person asks the same questions in different topics, in an attempt to either get the answers they might want to hear, or get their question answered faster.

And now, it sounds like there is another question -- about selecting items that are transparent? If you make objects completely transparent, there are a few ways to find them again. Using the Tab key, you can cycle through all the objects, one by one. Eventually you see the dotted line with arrows (bounding box) around nothing, and that will be your transparent object. You can also select it using selection box, or so-called rubberband selection technique, where with the selection tool, you drag a box shape. That will select any objects that are fully contained within the boundaries of the selection box. However, if it's transparent, it might be hard to know exactly where to draw the selection box. The real trick is to avoid making objects completely transparent, if you can

If the number of entirely transparent/invisible objects isn't too high, you might also give them a distinct name and then look for that name and select them in the XML-Editor. I like to give "special" objects such names in order to find them quickly even across several layers, should need be. Hmm, I feel like I'm doing strange stuff in the editor far too often :D

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned switching to outline mode (View > Display Mode > Outline) to find your transparent objects. In that view everything will be visible - so you won't be able to tell at a glance which are the transparent ones - but if you've got some idea of which area to look in or which shape you're looking for you can often spot them.