[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-developer] Are there plans to create a unique "Add layer" tool?

Mon Jun 5 01:28:19 PDT 2017

Ah yes, sorry. I was thinking that button will do the same thing like in
the toolbar (I also didn't read the tooltip).

Thanks!

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 2:59 PM, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Ismail Sunni <imajimatika at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Allesandro,
>>
>> I just tried the new add layer button. It looks great! One thing that I
>> found, when I click the add layer button in the browser panel, there is
>> nothing happening.
>>
>> I made a gif to show it : http://imgur.com/EPGFuEz
>>
>
>
> Works for me. Make sure you selected a layer before pushing that button.
>
>
>
>> I build QGIS master on MacOS, for 27850fb00e
>>
>> Best regards.
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Stéphane,
>>>
>>> Thanks for testing the new dialog!
>>>
>>> I think that if you find a bug (a crash or something that doesn't work
>>> as expected) you should open an issue on the hub and assign it to me.
>>>
>>> For general feed-back or change proposal for the UI/UX you can either
>>> use this thread or make a PR with the proposed changes and discuss them in
>>> the the PR.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Stéphane Henriod <stephanebek at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Alessandro
>>>>
>>>> I just downloaded the latest nightly build and will make some tests in
>>>> the coming days. What would be the most efficient / useful way to give you
>>>> feedback and comments? On this thread?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks and cheers
>>>>
>>>> Stéphane
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Le jeudi 1 juin 2017, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Stéphane Henriod <
>>>>> stephanebek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I really look forward to testing it :-) Thanks a lot for our
>>>>>> involvement here!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks to Boundless for funding the development and thanks to all of
>>>>> you who participated with design, mockups, ideas, comments and reviews!
>>>>>
>>>>> This was a nice and effective cooperation.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, if you can't wait, a Docker with a nigthly build of the PR branch
>>>>> is available as "boundlessgeo/qgis-testing-environment:unified-button"
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Le mercredi 31 mai 2017, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> a
>>>>>> écrit :
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> final update: the development of what was in phase 1 is done.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Actually, a bit more than phase 1 considering that we've redesigned
>>>>>>> the delimited text dialog GUI and I've done quite a bit of small
>>>>>>> refactorings of the providers selection dialogs interfaces.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There has been a lot of feed-back, thank you all!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As expected, there is no complete agreement over the final GUI bits
>>>>>>> for the menus and toolbars, and we still miss an icon (the green plus that
>>>>>>> I've used was only meant as a placeholder). I tried to keep the old toolbar
>>>>>>> available (disabled by default) mainly because it can spare a click and
>>>>>>> power users might want it back. Also, the new icon is the most prominent in
>>>>>>> the left bar and it's the first menu item in the layers menu.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have not a strong opinion about those toolbars and menus but I
>>>>>>> think I should wait no more and merge it as it is, then give the people
>>>>>>> some time to test the actual implementation and decide how to improve it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I kept the controversial part in a single commit so that it will be
>>>>>>> very easy to revert and propose a different placement for menus, icons and
>>>>>>> toolbars.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any objections if I proceed?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Alessandro Pasotti <
>>>>>>> apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> a quick update:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've prepared a PR with a working prototype in
>>>>>>>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/4629, I need some feed-back and
>>>>>>>> some help, expecially UX/UI about if we want it as a dockable dialog too
>>>>>>>> (and how to make it user-configurable).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Feed-back welcome (but please keep it limited in scope to phase 1).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde <
>>>>>>>> rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 19-05-17 01:23, Nyall Dawson wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> > On this note - I've recently discovered the need for some type of
>>>>>>>>> > reusable layer selection widget which allows choice of existing
>>>>>>>>> > layers/loading new layers from the file system/loading new
>>>>>>>>> layers from
>>>>>>>>> > available db/online connections. This would be extremely
>>>>>>>>> valuable for
>>>>>>>>> > processing too!
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > So I'm really glad to hear that you'll be pushing ahead with
>>>>>>>>> this work
>>>>>>>>> > - thanks Boundless!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Yep, and thanks Alessandro for the screenie. Makes me want more!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> @Nyall in Essen the talk was to start with what Alessandro wrote
>>>>>>>>> in his
>>>>>>>>> email, so 1 dialog 'merging' all buttons/widgets/dialogs into one,
>>>>>>>>> reuse
>>>>>>>>> as much as possible. So it was possible to get it into 3.0
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Off course people (.../me) started brainstorming about features
>>>>>>>>> which
>>>>>>>>> w/could be added too :-)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Your idea adds (I think) to the idea to make some kind of
>>>>>>>>> 'datamanagement-console' in near future, where you can create/copy
>>>>>>>>> data(!), move data around (browser part) or delete it.
>>>>>>>>> Your note fits in this isn't it?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Richard
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> Alessandro Pasotti
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>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
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