[Qgis-community-team] Renaming Style Manager?

[Alexandre Neto]

Not wanting to add more confusion, but adding it anyway :-p

Maybe it's not the style manager that that needs to be changed, but the
term "style" itself and how it is used.

At least for me the word style is related to the way something looks.

In QGIS, when you save a "style" you are actually saving many of the layer
"properties" and not all are related to the way the layer will look.

So style could be reserved to symbols, labels, color ramps, and so on...
And maybe we need another term for what we call style now.

We also have Layer Definition Files.

My two cents.

Alex

A sexta, 14/01/2022, 21:06, Charles Dixon-Paver <charles at kartoza.com>
escreveu:

> +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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