- improvements from Mathias Panzenböck (panzi) patch [#19695], which avoid conversion to/from strings with context property assignment. though didnt apply entire patch.

- [#19698] Add Menu Item: View3d -> Object -> Move to layer
  from Howard Brooks (hbroo)
- had cursor grab commented by mistake for X11

intern/ghost/intern/GHOST_WindowX11.cpp

@@ -1412,7 +1412,7 @@ setWindowCursorGrab(
 				setWindowCursorVisibility(false);
 
 		}
-		//XGrabPointer(m_display, m_window, True, ButtonPressMask| ButtonReleaseMask|PointerMotionMask, GrabModeAsync, GrabModeAsync, None, None, CurrentTime);
+		XGrabPointer(m_display, m_window, True, ButtonPressMask| ButtonReleaseMask|PointerMotionMask, GrabModeAsync, GrabModeAsync, None, None, CurrentTime);
 	}
 	else {
 		if (m_cursorGrab==GHOST_kGrabHide) {
@@ -1430,7 +1430,7 @@ setWindowCursorGrab(
 		/* Almost works without but important otherwise the mouse GHOST location can be incorrect on exit */
 		setCursorGrabAccum(0, 0);
 		m_cursorGrabBounds.m_l= m_cursorGrabBounds.m_r= -1; /* disable */
-		//XUngrabPointer(m_display, CurrentTime);
+		XUngrabPointer(m_display, CurrentTime);
 	}
 
 	XFlush(m_display);

release/scripts/modules/bpy_ops.py

@@ -155,50 +155,44 @@ class MESH_OT_delete_edgeloop(bpy.types.Operator):
 
 rna_path_prop = bpy.props.StringProperty(attr="path", name="Context Attributes", description="rna context string", maxlen= 1024, default= "")
 
+def execute_context_assign(self, context):
+	exec("context.%s=self.value" % self.path)
+	return ('FINISHED',)
+
 class WM_OT_context_set_boolean(bpy.types.Operator):
 	'''Set a context value.'''
 	__idname__ = "wm.context_set_boolean"
 	__label__ = "Context Set"
 	__props__ = [rna_path_prop, bpy.props.BoolProperty(attr="value", name="Value", description="Assignment value", default= True)]
-	def execute(self, context):
+	execute = execute_context_assign
-		exec("context.%s=%s" % (self.path, self.value)) # security nuts will complain.
-		return ('FINISHED',)
 
 class WM_OT_context_set_int(bpy.types.Operator): # same as enum
 	'''Set a context value.'''
 	__idname__ = "wm.context_set_int"
 	__label__ = "Context Set"
 	__props__ = [rna_path_prop, bpy.props.IntProperty(attr="value", name="Value", description="Assignment value", default= 0)]
-	def execute(self, context):
+	execute = execute_context_assign
-		exec("context.%s=%d" % (self.path, self.value)) # security nuts will complain.
-		return ('FINISHED',)
 		
 class WM_OT_context_set_float(bpy.types.Operator): # same as enum
 	'''Set a context value.'''
 	__idname__ = "wm.context_set_int"
 	__label__ = "Context Set"
 	__props__ = [rna_path_prop, bpy.props.FloatProperty(attr="value", name="Value", description="Assignment value", default= 0.0)]
-	def execute(self, context):
+	execute = execute_context_assign
-		exec("context.%s=%f" % (self.path, self.value)) # security nuts will complain.
-		return ('FINISHED',)
 
 class WM_OT_context_set_string(bpy.types.Operator): # same as enum
 	'''Set a context value.'''
 	__idname__ = "wm.context_set_string"
 	__label__ = "Context Set"
 	__props__ = [rna_path_prop, bpy.props.StringProperty(attr="value", name="Value", description="Assignment value", maxlen= 1024, default= "")]
-	def execute(self, context):
+	execute = execute_context_assign
-		exec("context.%s='%s'" % (self.path, self.value)) # security nuts will complain.
-		return ('FINISHED',)
 
 class WM_OT_context_set_enum(bpy.types.Operator):
 	'''Set a context value.'''
 	__idname__ = "wm.context_set_enum"
 	__label__ = "Context Set"
 	__props__ = [rna_path_prop, bpy.props.StringProperty(attr="value", name="Value", description="Assignment value (as a string)", maxlen= 1024, default= "")]
-	def execute(self, context):
+	execute = execute_context_assign
-		exec("context.%s='%s'" % (self.path, self.value)) # security nuts will complain.
-		return ('FINISHED',)
 
 class WM_OT_context_toggle(bpy.types.Operator):
 	'''Toggle a context value.'''

release/scripts/ui/space_view3d.py

@@ -427,6 +427,7 @@ class VIEW3D_MT_object(bpy.types.Menu):
 		
 		layout.itemS()
 		
+		layout.itemO("object.move_to_layer", text="Move to Layer...")
 		layout.itemM("VIEW3D_MT_object_showhide")
 		
 		layout.item_menu_enumO("object.convert", "target")