[Qgis-developer] New Labeling

[Andrew Chapman]

Hi Andreas
Yes they way that you have described generally seems logical with the
exception that I don't understand why it should be necessary to specify
fields for distance, X & Y before rotation and position are enabled. 
I would have thought that all position options could be selected on a
case-by-case basis with the defaults used where options aren't specified -
that way there would be no need to create dummy fields. 
Is there a reason why this default solution is inappropriate?
Andrew

>Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:39:20 +0200
>From: Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
>Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] New Labeling:
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>Hi Andrew,
>
>The logic is that one often wants label positions separate from the
>actual geometry. The new label tool allows x/y positions not only for
>point geometries (where one can use the point geometry), but also for
>line and area features. If x/y columns are empty, QGIS uses the featurue
>geometry, if one manually moves the labels, x/y columns are used. This
>way one can mix manual and automatic labeling.
>
>If you want fully automatic labeling just create dummy x/y columns and
>never manually move labels around.
>
>Does it sound illogical to you?
>
>Andreas