[Qgis-developer] Map vs. Line line labelling orientation

[Martin Dobias]

Hi Sandro

(sorry I forgot about your mail)

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
>
> It makes sense to me to decide on placement to be dependent
> on line orientation or not. Usually you don't care about line
> orientation. In that case it'd be unexpected for you to see
> labels being left or right or above or below depending on that.
>
> Since such difference would only be visible for the "above" and
> "below" a first step could be hiding the choice completely unless
> one of those two behaviors is selected.

Ok, that makes sense - applied your patch from #4427


> Additionally, the choice could be reworded to be something like
> a "line orientation dependent position" checkbox.
>
> What do you think ?

Yes, that sounds good - changed in master.

However this leads me back to #3643 - your fix effectively removes any
difference in rendering when "line orientation dependent position" is
turned on or off.

Regards
Martin