Merge nested autolayouts

[rojcyk]

Coming from this twitter thread

Example Figma file

Case definition:

• If you have a frame with auto layout, which has no padding, and ...
• that frame only has one children which is also a frame with auto layout, and...
• there are no conflicting properties (spacing, direction or styling)
• Merge these two auto layouts

Questions:

• Would it break some designs?
• Given the frames would need to be non conflicting, would the behavior be predictable? The issue would not get reported if these frames would differ in a single value in any of the properties.

[geiras]

Would it break some designs?

It might. Only after testing several designs and layer organization you’ll be able to know how well the rules apply.
The plug-in could have a UI to help users preview the effect of the actions and decide to commit the changes or not.

The UI would also allow the users to select which layers to merge and change the selection without having to close and re-open the plug-in.