[Qgis-community-team] Renaming Style Manager?

[Charles Dixon-Paver]

+1 for Design Manager

On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 at 23:00, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:

> 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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