[Qgis-user] Send us your tips!

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> Hi Martin
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Alister Hood
>> <alister.hood at synergine.com> wrote:
>>> But I think symbol levels should probably be enabled by
>>> default, in which case this tip wouldn't be necessary :)
>>
>> Rendering with symbol levels is more costly, so -1 for me to enable it
>> by default.
>>
>
> I remember debating this with you at Wroclaw. Is it more costly also
> in situations where symbols are simple and have 1 layer each only? In
> the case of multilayer symbols I would say 99% of the time I want
> symbol levels on. I do quite a lot of training and the symbol levels
> is something that a) new users struggle to comprehend and b) gets
> forgotten as a detail after the training and then people come back to
> me asking why their maps look funny. I think from a user friendliness
> point of view, there would be a lot gained by enabling it by default
> (performance issues notwithstanding). Maybe we should add it as
> another item in our endless options panel (which I will reorganise in
> Lisbon)?
>

To clarify, above discussion relates to line symbols only.

Regards

Tim


> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>> Martin
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