[Qgis-developer] deselecting features - last minute API change?

[Borys Jurgiel]

Hi,
We can freely add vector features to selection (as well with gui as api) but 
can't deselect any feature. It's not a problem for plugins - they can remove 
selection and select again. But the problem is bigger for user who wants to 
select "all except something" or just has selected one bridge too far. I can 
imagine a number of future plugins dependent on manually selected features, 
so the ability of deselecting features is quite important.

The reason is that we haven't any 'QgsVectorLayer::deselect' method. We have 
the following:  

QgsVectorLayer::select (in various variants) 
QgsVectorLayer::invertSelection
QgsVectorLayer::removeSelection

So it seems naturally to add also 'deselect'. Is there any reason for what it 
is not implemented yet? If none, can I implement it before 1.0.0? We can wait 
with gui behaviour changing for 1.0.1, but it would be good to have at least 
the methods ready in the 1.0.0 API.

Regards,
B.