[Qgis-developer] Minor Irritations

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 31/10/2010 20:20, Alex Mandel ha scritto:

> 1. When adding a vector layer, you hit browse the default tends to be
> shapefile, but when you add a raster the default is "All GDAL formats".
> I think All OGR formats would be a much better default, having to scroll
> all the time for gml, kml etc is really annoying especially when I'm
> working hard to break people of the assumption that vector = shapefile.

Agreed. I think the last choice should be remembered.

> 2. As pointed out by a colleague: Many people new to GIS have no idea
> the KML = Keyhole Markup Language, so it's not clear on the Save as..
> option that is actually KML. The same might be said for GML. Either
> changing the names in the list or putting (Hint) would seem useful to users.

Agreed: I have found users thinking there is no KML support because of that.

All the best.
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