[Qgis-community-team] Renaming Style Manager?

[Anita Graser]

Thanks Harrissou and Jörn,

Good to see all these previous discussions. Seems like everyone agrees
that "Style Manager" has to be renamed but we don't have a good
alternative yet. As Nyall said in
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/2765, "Symbol Manager" is not correct
either.

We're looking for an umbrella term that covers: symbols, color ramps,
text formats, label settings, legend patch shapes, and 3D symbols.

We use "resources" in the Resource Manager, however that's for
"Symbology (SVG, images, styles), Processing scripts, Processing models,
R scripts and checklists" (according to
https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/qgis_resource_sharing/).

Brainstorming:

  * Cartography Resources
  * Visual Library
  * Design Manager
  * ...

What do you think about "design"?

Regards,

Anita


On 14.01.2022 21:25, Jörn Gutzeit wrote:
> 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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