<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">From my side, I never ever change those options….I am sure there are few who do….<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 26 Jul 2019, at 08:09, Paolo Cavallini <<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it" class="">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi all,<br class="">this was originally ported into QGIS by Martin Dobias, I guess he's the<br class="">only one who could know.<br class="">Cheers.<br class=""><br class="">On 26/07/19 06:31, Phil Wyatt wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi Nyall,<br class=""><br class="">Took me a while but I found this, that may provide some enlightenment ......<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://pal.heig-vd.ch/index.php?page=support" class="">http://pal.heig-vd.ch/index.php?page=support</a> <br class=""><br class="">Having said that I will bow to your superior knowledge and let you do whatever you want - I am but a humble user in awe of your coding abilities! :-) :-)<br class=""><br class="">Cheers - Phil<br class=""><br class="">-----Original Message-----<br class="">From: Qgis-user [<a href="mailto:qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" class="">mailto:qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] On Behalf Of Nyall Dawson<br class="">Sent: Friday, 26 July 2019 12:40 PM<br class="">To: qgis-developer; qgis-user<br class="">Subject: [Qgis-user] Dropping the extra label placement algorithms?<br class=""><br class="">Hey lists<br class=""><br class="">This was first discussed back in 2016 (see<br class=""><a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Removal-of-labeling-search-methods-td5262743.html" class="">http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Removal-of-labeling-search-methods-td5262743.html</a>),<br class="">but would anyone object if the different labeling solution algorithms<br class="">eg "chain" / "pop music" / "falp" / etc were dropped, and we just<br class="">leave the existing default (chain)?<br class=""><br class="">I don't think ANYONE knows what these mean, and it's a heck of a lot<br class="">of code (which needs fixes) to cart around for no compelling reason<br class="">that I can see.<br class=""><br class="">I have no particular preference to any of the methods, so would<br class="">happily accept a different default if anyone out there can point to<br class="">which method is best!<br class=""><br class="">Googling pop music / tabu / chain only gives a handful of results<br class="">relating to QGIS labeling engine. And googling for "falp" sounds like<br class="">something that would get you flagged on your company's firewall.<br class=""><br class="">Does ANYONE understand or change this setting? Or would object to its<br class="">complete removal?<br class=""><br class="">Nyall<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Qgis-user mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user<br class="">Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Qgis-user mailing list<br class="">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<br class="">List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user<br class="">Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">-- <br class="">Paolo Cavallini - <a href="http://www.faunalia.eu" class="">www.faunalia.eu</a><br class=""><a href="http://QGIS.ORG" class="">QGIS.ORG</a> Chair:<br class=""><a href="http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/" class="">http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/</a><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Qgis-user mailing list<br class="">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<br class="">List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user<br class="">Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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