[Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] vector editing in QGIS - questions and issues (PostGIS biased)

[Maciej Sieczka]

Marco Hugentobler pisze:

> So the main problem seems to be confusion that users might have about default 
> settings and project settings.
 >
> In my opinion it is enough to add a note in the project snapping dialog that 
> after pressing 'ok', the default setting is overwritten.
> 
> Similarly, in the options dialog, it could be mentioned that this may be 
> overwritten by more specialised project settings.

This confusion is one bad thing. An appropriate information would help.

However, there are other bad things:

1. You can't restore global snapping once you press OK in Snapping 
Options. You will have to set individual snapping for each new layer in 
the project from then on.

2. Only in per-layer snapping settings it is possible to choose the 
snapping mode (to vertex, to segment, to both). If you want to use this 
great new feature which is snapping to both, you will have to set it in 
Snapping Options, for each single layer. Naturaly after you do it even 
for a single layer, you don't have any global snapping active anymore, 
so you are forced to set snapping for each new layer in your project 
until forever :).

In my other email from 05.03.2008 17:24 i describe how, as I believe it, 
to prevent these issues and let the global and individual snapping 
co-exist cheerfully.

If what I suggest is not feasible, at a minimum please add the 
possibility to define the snapping mode in Settings > Options > 
Digitizing. So that one does not have to settle for tedious 
configuration of snapping mode for each single layer if he wants to 
benefit from snapping to segment or to vertex and segment.

Maciek