[QGIS-Developer] File extension for GeoPackage with QGIS projects

[Nyall Dawson]

Hey Lior!

On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 at 21:02, Lior Kaplan <lior at kaplanopensource.co.il> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When saving a project in a GPKG, the only way to open the project is by project -> open from. Which works well, but is quite annoying.
>
> But, it doesn't work when dragging the GPKG into QGIS as it would with qgs/qgz. And if that GPKG has data layers in it, they wouldn't be opened - so the user might miss quite easily that it is also a project layer.
>
> Along the current feature requests to notify the user that the GPKG also has a project layer and ask if he wants to open it?
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/30538
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/40252
>

Can you test with current master/nightly versions? These issues should
all be fixed now, and you'll get prompted to open projects when
dragging & dropping a GPKG.

Nyall


> I thought this approach might be relevant - Decide to use another extension for those GPKG files -  allowing us to take a different course than regular GPKG files (loading project, not data). Similar to qgs/qgz files.
>
> The end goal here is that we can register a mime type or as extension for QGIS, indicating it should load project layers instead of data layers (which are probably referenced by the project).
>
> What do you think about this option ?
>
> p.s.
> If someone wants to implement this, please reach out in private.
> I might be able to allocate some funds to it.
>
> +972-52-2235911
> L: Lior Kaplan
> T: @opensource_il
> F: @liorkaplanopensource
> https://kaplanopensource.co.il/
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