[Qgis-community-team] [QGIS-Developer] Rename Style manager to Symbol manager in 3.0?

Nathan Woodrow madmanwoo at gmail.com
Tue Jan 2 17:23:44 PST 2018


+1.  That has always bugged me.

- Nathan

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com>
wrote:

> While writing some tutorials, I have noticed some possible nomenclature
> confusion between Symbols (as compounds of stacked markers, lines, fills
> outlines and color ramps) and Styles (a vector layer symbols and labels
> settings).
>
> We currently have to places we call "Style manager":
> 1. The symbols library that we open by going to Options > Style Manager;
> 2. The Style manager tab in the Layer Styling panel.
>
> I think that the first one should be renamed to "Symbols manager", since
> it exclusively allows to create, edit, group, import and export symbols,
> and not styles.
>
> On the other hand, the Style manager in the Layer Styling panel allows to
> create, manage, load, save as default the layers' styles (unfortunatly it
> does not allow to save styles as we can do in properties).
>
> Any strong opinions about this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Alexandre Neto
>
>
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