Dear all,<br><br>This is a little beside the point you are discussing, but I think it would be a nice addition to the File Browser to allow users to delete geographic data (or only shapefiles). Managing geographic data with Windows Explorer is quite annoying and I think it would make a lot of sense to add this feature to the File Browser.<br>
<br><a href="http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4739">http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4739</a><br><a href="http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5076">http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5076</a><br><br>Best regards<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Giovanni Manghi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giovanni.manghi@faunalia.pt" target="_blank">giovanni.manghi@faunalia.pt</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I think the discussion on <a href="http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5621" target="_blank">http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5621</a> deserves more general<br>
> discussion on this ML. Opinions? Could reporters make a short resume for us?<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>I originally asked to avoid leave the extension while dragging and<br>
dropping from the browser, mainly because when dropping into DB Manager<br>
it is annoying to have to manually remove that ".shp" (example) from the<br>
suggested table name.<br>
<br>
On the other hand seeing the datatype in the TOC is useful and a thing<br>
that many users have asked in the past.<br>
<br>
Real life projects tend to be large, with many layers from many<br>
datasources/types. Vectors are not just vectors, and rasters are not<br>
just rasters: there are vectors that cannot be edited (lack of<br>
permission or because gdal does not allow it), layers that cannot be<br>
used as input by standard qgis tools (GRASS rasters), etc.<br>
<br>
Sometimes the users have even layers with the same name but of different<br>
type.<br>
<br>
So, seeing the format in the TOC is a step forward in usability, and in<br>
the ticket were suggested a few ways to get it.<br>
<br>
cheers!<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
-- Giovanni --<br>
</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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