[Qgis-community-team] Renaming Style Manager?

[Jörn Gutzeit]

Hi,

I also recently had a confusion between style/style: I wanted to write 
the documentation for the new feature "Save all styles" and first 
searched for it in the style manger (also because the issue has the tag 
"style manager" ... ;-) ). The new feature, however, makes it possible 
to save several styles from the layer properties dialog as QML/SLD files 
or in a db [1].

Now we are in a discussion how to separate this styles in the chapter 
(all layer properties) and the style manager (symbols only) [2]. 
Renaming the style manager might help …

Regards,
Jörn

[1] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/issues/4398
[2] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/pull/7217



Am 14.01.2022 um 16:39 schrieb Delaz J:
> Hi Anita, all
>
> The inconsistent use of the word "style" is indeed an issue and 
> confusing. It was raised years ago in 
> https://github.com/qgis/qgis3_UIX_discussion/issues/16 (and probably 
> in QGIS repo but hard to find) with an attempt of fix at 
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/2765 (you'll find some answers to 
> your suggestion of symbol manager).
>
> Maybe the time has come for the cleanup...?
>
> Regards,
>
> Harrissou
>
> Le 14/01/2022 à 13:14, Anita Graser a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> This question was triggered by Tim at
>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/issues/231
>>
>> The terms "style" and "symbol" are used somewhat inconsistently in the
>> QGIS application and on the QGIS hub website. For example, in Settings |
>> Style Manager the users actually manage symbols. On the hub, the
>> "styles" page allows sharing symbol definitions (XML) but not styles 
>> (QML).
>>
>> This later inconsistency is confusing, i.e. it confused me when I wanted
>> to share a QML file and realized that I cannot.
>>
>> I think it would be worthwhile to strive for more consistency and to
>> rename the Style Manager because it really is a symbol manager. It's
>> Import/Export functionality deals with XML symbols and not QML styles.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anita
>>
>>
>>
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