[Portugal] Anunciado QGIS 1.4

[Giovanni Manghi]

http://blog.qgis.org/node/142


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QGIS 1.4

Visual changes:
New Symbology Infrastructure

Probably the biggest new feature is the addition of the new symbology
infrastructure. This is provided alongside the old implementation - you
can switch using a button in the vector layer properties dialog. It
does't replace the old symbology implementation completely yet because
there are various isues that need to be resolved and a large amount of
testing that needs to take place. Along with the new symbology system,
there is a new labelling plugin provided that attempts to address issues
with the 'old' labelling system. This will be integrated into the core
application at some point in the future when it is considered ready.

Field Calculator

QGIS now has a field calculator, accessible via a button in the
attribute section of the vector properties, and from the attribute table
user interface. You can use feature length, feature area, string
concatenation and type conversions in the field calculator, as well as
field values.

Print Composer

The map composer has had a lot of attention. A grid can now be added to
composer maps. Composer maps can now be rotated in the map layout. The
limitation of a single map layout per project has been removed. A new
composer manager dialog has been added to manage the existing composer
instances. Composer pictures can now be rotated and it is possible to
synchronize composer map rotation and composer picture rotation (e.g.
useful for north arrows). Arrows and shapes can now be placed onto the
composer layout. The map composer dialogs have all been completely
overhauled to use less screen space and to provide for more consistency

User interface improvements

Various parts of the user interface have been overhauled with the goal
of improving consistency and to improve support for netbooks and other
smaller screen devices. Loading and saving of keyboard shortcuts is now
possible. Position can now be displayed as Degrees, Minutes, Seconds in
the status bar. The add, move and delete vertex buttons are now removed
and the node tool is moved from the advanced editing toolbar to the
standard editing toolbar. The node tool replaces the functionality of
the three removed items. Layer adding and removing actions are now
unified to one toolbar and removed hide show all layers and add to
overview icons from toolbar (as discussed at hackfest). The feature
identification tool has also undergone numerous improvements. The
options, raster properties and vector properties dialogs now use a
property list paradigm to improve usability and reduce the amount of
screen real estate these dialogs consume.

Render caching

User defined SVG search paths are now added to the options dialog. This
means you can specify your own directories containing svg images, which
can then be used for symbolisation.

Customizable attribute forms

For power users, you can now create customizable attribute forms using
Qt Designer dialog UIs.

Changelog

        
        
      * Plugin Installer polishing, updates, new repositories for the
        1.x
      * add usb: to list of gps device on linux
      * rotate point tool (r11671)
      * Round rotation to 15 degree values if ctrl-key is pressed
      * attribute table: report number of matching rows in status bar
      * Show point symbol in rotation preview and a little arrow.
      * Cache is default preview mode for newly added composer map now
      * Usability improvements to the new vector layer dialog
      * Remove confusing descriptions in the Options dialog
      * Inject a bit of layman into field names to help those not
        familiar with computer terms
      * plugin installer update: more default repos
      * Use snapping settings of digitizing module also for measuring
      * field calculator (r11735)
      * Use nicer looking resize boxes in print composer
      * HIG compliance for composer and its dialogs
      * HIG compliance for Identfy Mode
      * HIG compliance for snap mode combo list
      * User interface cleanups to copyright, delim text and n-arrow
        plugins
      * plugin installer update: handle ports != 80
      * Fix for shifted values in interpolation plugin
      * wider support for vector layer queries:
      * grass plugin update and typos:
      * Add export to pdf to composer menu
      * Patch from Borys to fix resizing of the min-max combo boxes
      * allow entering of srid up to 1000000000
      * Possibility to have annotations horizontally or vertically in
        the composer grid
      * Grid annotation can be with coordinates or 1A, 1B, ...
      * Checkbox to set composer grid widget visible / invisible
      * Allow field calculator also for layers where adding new fields
        is not possible (user will have to use one of the existing
        fields)
      * support user specific svg path in the map composer
      * Possibility to choose the precision of composer grid annotations
      * Possibility to add/remove attributes also in attribute table.
        Small modification to attribute table such that adding /
        removing columns is visible
      * Dont show all other file types as it makes the dialog box
        unusable on many screens
      * Rename option to lock layers
      * Move composers menu into the file menu
      * make database (aka SID) optional for OCI connections
      * Allow more decimal places in interpolator plugin
      * Use horizontal layout for interp plugin
      * Lots of Gui layout cleanups
      * change 'Tools' menu to 'Vector' menu
      * Cubic tin interpolation in interpolation plugin
      * zonal statistics (r11931)
      * coordinate capture cleanup (r11939,r11944)
      * bunch of string updates
      * Further ui cleanups for map composer
      * mapserver patch issues and updates for mapserver export plugin
      * Added 50 more North arrow, made and donated by Silvio Grosso
      * add numeric validator field width and precision in new vector
        dialog
      * Add save to / load from template actions to composer file menu
      * Change rotate point icon on theme change
      * udpate to fTools basics stats plugin. Adds new
        statistics/outputs to basic statistics plugin
      * add overlay analyzer
      * Added newgis theme which is a revision by Anita Graser of the
        original GIS theme by Robert
      * north arrow cleanup
      * ui cleanup to buttonbox. small ui update in messageviewer
      * changed OK button to Open as it's a open dialog
      * Initialize portrait / landscape in print dialog based on
        composition width and height
      * Layout cleanups for actions widget
      * Symbology-NG branch merged to trunk. This includes also work on
        labeling done during my GSoC'09
      * labeling plugin
      * Add a new composer item to draw basic shapes (atm ellipse,
        rectangle, triangle)
      * More options for v.buffer
      * Better preview for composer picture
      * Vector layer properties dialog can convert layer to new/old
        symbology
      * Implement property list ui for raster props dialog
      * Add arrow icon to image resource file
      * shapefile projection fix: save the real projection in .qpj next
        to the .prj file
      * Added AGG output format to mapserver export
      * Make spatial lite dialog smaller
      * Configure shortcuts dialog
      * Make labeling plugin work with on-the-fly projections
      * also remove highlights when identify results is closed with the
        close button
      * enable test and clear to search query builder
      * Updated various GRASS modules. Closes #2229 and #2046, Applied
        #2004
      * Plugin installer update: one-step plugin install and uninstall
        in QGIS>=1.4