[Qgis-developer] Dropping the "render" checkbox

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi all,

> One reason to keep it: For us the use case has often been when you are
> doing first set up of a project and you are dropping a bunch of large
> layers yet. You want to set up scale dependent visibility and rules first
> without waiting for time consuming renders, then enable rendering when
> everything is added.

agree, but also when a project is already done, and is needed to tune
some properties/options (maybe not even canvas related) that triggers
useless canvas redraws.


> One reason to remove it: I have often done training courses where a user
> has randomly unchecked that and they can't figure out why nothing draws. In
> a training room that is easy to fix. In 'the wild' I bet it is a source of
> big frustration....

is true, but in my training and support experience is not *that*
common. Remove this useful feature just for this reason seems an
overkill to me,

so from a user point of view, and for what it matters, -1


cheers!

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