[Designer 2: Did the way a parent layer/group's fill/stroke propagation behavior change?]

23 hours ago, lepr said:

You may be thinking of a Compound (non-destructive Boolean geometry) rather than a Group or Layer, because colouring a Compound does not affect its contained objects.

 

Yes indeed! I think you're correct. This is must be what I was remembering. Thank you, lepr!

[Designer 2: Did the way a parent layer/group's fill/stroke propagation behavior change?]

Ah, k. Thank you for the information!

[Designer 2: Did the way a parent layer/group's fill/stroke propagation behavior change?]

Hello! I seem to remember being able to override a parent group/layer's fill/stroke setting without having the changes permanently propagate down to individual children in past versions.

Is my memory playing tricks on me? Thanks in advance for your kind & illuminating replies!

This is how it currently works:

1. All curves were created by duplicating the top pink one & moving them. The green one is in a vector layer (Layer1) while the yellow is in a group (Group).
2. The fill color was edited on the parent vector layer to green & parent group to yellow.
3. Removing the two children from their parents shows they retain the parent's overridden fill color (same if stroke was modified btw).

 

This is what I expect/remember (perhaps erroneously): Removing the two children from their parents, they return to the original objects pink color (in this case pink). (& Just to be clear, the following image was edited to show what I hoped would happen.😉)

Thanks again!

[Replace Symbol functionality]

Not only switching symbols but changing groups out for symbols as well. I'm surprised this hasn't been requested more often!

[Auto-close pencil lines]

+1 for this for sure!