Well it is called ‘boolean’ after all, and like in a lot of program languages, there are two possible outcomes, yes or no.
I was refereing to the result, not the prepicking process, per se.
The result of any boolean operation ( no matter how many selected) is always ‘are you in?’ (Join) or ‘are you out?’ (Split)
Selecting in LayOut with drag-select always has been buggy, unless you are very organised with (locked) layers etc.
An entity panel with info on what is selected, combined with a ‘Preference Selector’ (choose only text or viewport etc) would help, but that might be off topic(?)
I mostly end up clicking…
About the selecting of Fills;
You can pick Fill/Patterns independant from Strokes allready with the Style picker (B) so why not?
The confusing thing is perhaps that Boolean operations need ‘Primitives’ like rectangles and circles, but what you are drawing in LayOut is dependant of the Shape (FIll/Pattern/Stroke)
That has always confused me the most, a Line (Primitive?) can have a fill, in LayOut, without closing perimeter.
About Perimeters:
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