Hi all<div><br></div><div>I must say that Anita's hack seems quite handy and straight forward from a user's perspective. Would it be heavy to "just" integrate into the Master QGIS? I would be happy to help with testing. More, I unfortunately cannot do :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br>Stéphane</div><div><br></div><div><br><br>Le lundi 3 avril 2017, Tim Sutton <<a href="mailto:tim@kartoza.com">tim@kartoza.com</a>> a écrit :<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi Anita<div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 02 Apr 2017, at 10:21 PM, Anita Graser <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','anitagraser@gmx.at');" target="_blank">anitagraser@gmx.at</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><br><br style="font-family:Helvetica-Light;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:Helvetica-Light;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Tim Sutton<span> </span><span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','tim@kartoza.com');" target="_blank">tim@kartoza.com</a>></span><span> </span>wrote<wbr>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi Harrisou<div><br><div><span><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 02 Apr 2017, at 4:57 PM, DelazJ <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','delazj@gmail.com');" target="_blank">delazj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi devs,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">In the documentation team, we plan to rewrite the "Supported data formats" chapter (<a href="http://docs.qgis.org/2.14/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/supported_data.html" target="_blank">http://docs.qgis.org/2.14/en/<wbr>docs/user_manual/working_with_<wbr>vector/supported_data.html</a>) which actually explores many of the different ways to add (vector) layers to QGIS. It's full of redundant information, not easy to maintain and doesn't expose tools like the browser panel. Discussion at <a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/issues/1088." target="_blank">https://github.com/qgis/QGI<wbr>S-Documentation/issues/1088</a><span> </span>if you want to help.<br>Before we engage any time on this restructuring and to avoid doing things twice and because I read some related assertions in the past, I'd like to ask if there's any plan to merge some of these tools for 3.0... And if ever, what's the state of the work ?</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>This has been discussed a number of times, and Nathan made some initial mockups once. But as far as I know, nobody is actively working on this so I don't know if anything will land in 3.0. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">​I've been working with my "unified add layer button" modification for a few months now:<span> </span><a href="https://anitagraser.com/2016/07/20/one-add-button-to-rule-them-all/" target="_blank">https://anitagraser.com/<wbr>2016/07/20/one-add-button-to-<wbr>rule-them-all/</a>​</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Wouldn't want to go back. I still sometimes use the Add PostGIS layer dialog from the menus though. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ah thanks I forgot about your post Anita!</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:Helvetica-Light;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Best wishes,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Anita</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;line-height:normal;text-align:center"><span>—</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;line-height:normal;text-align:center"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><br></div><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span><span><span><span><span><img src="cid:1A5DF6DE-E302-4C28-BFBD-29663CBF1351"></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><br><br><br><br><br><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;line-height:normal"><b>Tim Sutton</b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;line-height:normal"><b>Co-founder:</b><span> </span>Kartoza</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;line-height:normal"><b>Project chair:</b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span> </span><a href="http://QGIS.org" target="_blank">QGIS.org</a></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;line-height:normal">Visit <a href="http://kartoza.com/" target="_blank"><span>http://kartoza.com</span></a> to find out about open source:</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;line-height:normal">Desktop GIS programming services</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;line-height:normal">Geospatial web development</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;line-height:normal">GIS Training</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;marg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</div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to 
make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people 
comfortable." -- Clifton Fadiman<span dir="ltr"><br></span></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>