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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2014/03/01 12:38, Nathan Woodrow
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hey all,
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<div>I would like to get some opinions on Save, Load, Restore
Default Style.. buttons. Personally I find these labeled
wrong for what action they take. Originally these buttons
would only save the information from the Style tab out to a
.qml file however now that has evolved to saving other
information that is not related to style, things like;:the
edit forms; included WMS, excluded WMS, etc. To me these are
more properties of the layer and less about the style so the
name is misleading. Sharing these also becomes hard because
if I only want the style part it can also override the label
and form settings I have. Hand editing the XML is the only
real option to remove the other settings, which is a pain</div>
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<div>Proposing: Rename from Save, Load Style to Save Properties,
Load Properties.</div>
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<div>Motivation: I would like to add the ability to save just
the style information out to a new file type (maybe something
like .qstyle) that would just contain the renderer-v2 XML
block. This would allow sharing of just the renderer style
and would also give me the ability to expand the Style Manager
to allow saving of prebuilt styles e.g I would like to premake
a planning scheme style that all ready contains the right
values to symbols that I could share and load. By Mixing
non style information in the .qml files means this is not as
simple as it could be. </div>
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<div>We could also expand the above logic to only save the label
section out to create a label "style" manager. </div>
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<div>Thoughts?</div>
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<div>- Nathan</div>
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Hi All,<br>
Please treat this as "thread enhancing" and not "thread hijacking"
:-)<br>
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If there are going to be modifications done to styling, please
consider adding a feature whereby the various styles chosen or
experimented with, are auto-saved for that mapsheet (perhaps in your
project files).<br>
I find when editing, edge-matching or QAing various mapsheets, I
want to easily switch between styles - I might choose "single
symbol" for the map I am editing, but "rule-based" for the adjoining
maps. Rule based choices would change depending on scenarios, so it
does not make sense to save a rule-based set (I could end up with
too many).<br>
So, what I am seeking is the ability to switch between the 5 style
categories, and not lose the ones I may have set up a few minutes
ago. If I close QGIS, and come back to the project later, I would
like to see the last styles I had set up for a mapsheet, still be
available when I click through the style options.<br>
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Hope I'm making myself clear.<br>
Thanks & regards,<br>
Zoltan<br>
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