[Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

[Nathan Woodrow]

Yeah I think having a show all files would be a good option.   My main
goal for the dialog is to do a way with as much of the filesystem feel
as possible (but not removing it completely) because IMO there is has
always been this divide in GIS software with the file system on one
side, which people are comfortable with and understand (to some
extent); and then there is the "other stuff" like databases, web
services which normally you have to access a different way which makes
people uncomfortable. Why should we treat them differently?  This is
my attempt to remove some of that feel. It borrows strongly from the
QBrowser idea, in fact would be good implemented as a sub set of that.

The key difference to the QBrowser is that the tree on the left is
only the root nodes (connection nodes) not the layers like in the
browser.  Clicking on a node, or parent node, would show all the
layers in that source on the right. This means you are not scrolling
up and down to load layers from different sources.  If I expand a
folder with 100 layers in QBrowser I now can't see my other
connections at a glance, but QBrowser and my dialog mockup serve a
different purpose.

I have to express though this is only a rough mockup and there is no
code backing it, and I haven't even tried to begin working on it as it
is above my current skill level in order to do it correctly.

- Nathan

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:02 PM, haubourg
<regis.haubourg at eau-adour-garonne.fr> wrote:
> I really like your unified GUI Nathan!  Nice..
> I would just add a small place for csv data overview (popup window?) and
> character encoding listbox.
>
> Anoter idea: An option to display all files (*.*) in folders would be nice
> too. For example, there is no filter today to access xls datas, but gdal
> already serves it. We still need a way to access physical files for such
> cases. Thoughts?
>
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