[Qgis-developer] Native file dialog bugs and the new Save As Vector functionality.

[Borys Jurgiel]

Dnia piątek, 19 marca 2010 o 16:53:27 John C. Tull napisał(a):
> Hi Borys,
> 
> On OS X, the native dialog seems to do what it should. Saving a layer to an
> ogr format brings that same format as the default the next time you choose
> save as. I am not sure of other problems that you are experiencing on kde,
> but things seem fine on OS X.

Hi John,

I'm pretty sure it's related only to the KDE4 native dialog. Other problems 
are: the last used directory is set as the initial file name, instead of 
entering into it and the save button is labeled "Open".

> I would recommend any change away from the native dialog be specific to
> kde. The non-native dialogs on OS X are very awkward and clunky. In fact,
> it would be great to make  an effort to bring native dialog support to all
> existing ui elements (native in the application as well as plugins).

The KDE problem has just provoked me to think about choosing one of them. 
I admit the native dialogs are far prettier, but are less usable. The main 
problem is native dialogs can't contain encoding and CRS selectors. The 
present two-step saving is very inconvenient for me (I assume in most cases 
you don't change the layer CRS) and there is an urgent need of implementing 
some kind of encoding selector. Adding a third step wolud be quite ridiculous, 
but for non-English users a possibility of switching between utf and cp 
encoding is essential.

The same problem is with opening a vector layer - I hate that additional 
dialog (forgive mi guys :D ). 

I believe we should stick with the encodingFileDialog at least as long as ESRI 
uses cp encodings :( I know we use the native dialogs in a few places, but it 
is one of the most painful problems my users meet. It makes QGIS just 
incompatible with shapefiles from ESRI.

B.