[QGIS Commit] r15733 - docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide

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Author: aghisla
Date: 2011-04-16 09:47:46 -0700 (Sat, 16 Apr 2011)
New Revision: 15733

Modified:
   docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/working_with_vector.tex
Log:
Applied patch from Stemby, about workaround to delete columns in shapefile. Closes #3707.

Modified: docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/working_with_vector.tex
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--- docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/working_with_vector.tex	2011-04-16 16:43:20 UTC (rev 15732)
+++ docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/working_with_vector.tex	2011-04-16 16:47:46 UTC (rev 15733)
@@ -1042,9 +1042,14 @@
 manipulated. The buttons \toolbtntwo{mActionNewAttribute}{New Column} and
 \toolbtntwo{mActionDeleteAttribute}{Delete Column} can be
 used, when the dataset is \toolbtntwo{mActionToggleEditing}{Editing mode}.
+
 At the moment only columns from PostGIS layers can be removed and added. The
 OGR library supports to add new columns, but not to remove them, if you have
-a GDAL version >= 1.6 installed.
+a GDAL version >= 1.6 installed.  In the GDAL/OGR trac there is a ticket with a patch that
+awaits to be committed (\url{http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2671}). Until then QGIS
+(and any other software that uses GDAL/OGR) can only use a workaround to delete
+Shapefile columns. In QGIS this ``workaround'' is a third-party plugin called
+Table Manager.
 
 \minisec{edit widget}