[Qgis-developer] Proposal: relative paths for SVG point symbols

[Andreas Neumann]

thanks, now tracked at
https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1665

Andreas

On Wed, April 29, 2009 1:18 am, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
> On 28 Apr 2009, at 11:14 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to propose that SVG symbol references in the QGIS project
>> file aren't stored with absolute paths, but with relative paths.
>>
>> This is very important in a Multi-OS environment (mixed
>> Windows/Linux/MacOSX).
>>
>> I assume that QGIS knows where the SVG symbol directory resides,
>> e.g. in
>> /usr/local/share/qgis/svg on Linux or in C:\OSGeo4W\apps\qgis\svg on
>> Windows.
>>
>> I also propose that QGIS automagically replaces backslashes with
>> slashes
>> or vice/versa in the paths, depending on the platform it runs on.
>>
>> The goal should be a QGIS project file that can freely be moved around
>> platforms, only pointing to network resources, such as Postgis
>> database,
>> WMS/WFS, etc. where there is no need for absolute paths.
>>
>> If you also think that this is useful, I'd like to open a feature
>> request
>> in the bug-tracker.
>>
>
> Yes it will be useful and is a good idea.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
>> Thanks,
>> Andreas
>>
>> --
>> Andreas Neumann
>> http://www.carto.net/neumann/
>> http://www.svgopen.org/
>>
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>


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Andreas Neumann
http://www.carto.net/neumann/
http://www.svgopen.org/