If would be very nice if you could click an item and then use a keyboard command to bring that item forward or send it backward.

The current method requires users to click an item, then right click, then select arrangement from the popup menu, and then choose their option.

In the Windows Standalone version 1.2 it's possible to use toolbar icons to perform the same actions as described above. However, keyboard shortcuts would be really useful as well.

Shortcuts are added, at least to Windows Standalone version 1.2. However, they are not that visible in the GUI.

Do you mean keyboard shortcuts are added? Is this documented? Which is the shortcut for "send backward" and "bring forward"?

Hi, I've create a fork of Pencil and I've added shortcuts into a context menu. You can download build from Github https://github.com/LukasRychtecky/pencil

This issue is about managing different layers, to be exact about shortcuts for sending an element backward or bringing it forward.

For me your added shortcuts aren't important. Quit is fine but rarely used and "delete" is more apropriate for "deleting" things than backspace, isn't it?

Yes, I know. But many users don't know about shortcut for sending an element backward or bringing it forward. Because they can't see shortcuts in a context menu - I've added for better usage.

You're right. "Delete" is native, but on MacOSX there is no "delete key" and I must pres fn + backspace. For me (and I hope also for other Mac users) is more efficient use backspace than fn + backspace.

Okay, didn't know that. Macs do not have a native delete key? Another reason to avoid Apple machines ;)

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Macbooks have a delete key (which is actually "backspace"). I think they got this one right (delete forward is less frequently used ;). Anyway, ideological arguments it would be great if the keyboard mappings were either configurable or mapped to platform-specific idioms. Along these lines, I expect the command key to do much of what "ctrl" is used for (ctrl-c vs. command-c).