[Qgis-developer] Bringing diagrams into labeling-ng

[Andreas Neumann]

> I share Tim's opinion opinion that in future it would be good to 
> allow
> to save the placement in project file (or maybe an independent file).
> While keeping the placement information in layer attributes might be
> convenient for some (as commented in follow up mail from Andreas), it
> has some difficulties, too:
> - if a layer is used in various independent projects, the labeling
> requirements might be different for each of them
> - it's not very user friendly if the users need to manually add new
> attributes to the layer, assign them to labeling and learn what 
> values
> to put there
> - the approach using attributes is not that flexible: things like
> curved labels or any custom labeling properties would be rather hard
> to represent in layer's attributes

 You are right - there are arguments for both storage options.

 Andreas

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