[Qgis-developer] Add a simpler default setting for a fresh installation

MORREALE Jean Roc jr.morreale at enoreth.net
Mon Apr 16 05:05:01 EDT 2012


Hi,

Would it be possible to change the default parameters of QGIS ? For now 
a new user gets all the tool bars on the first launch and most of the 
tools are not visible. Some such as advanced digitizing, grass, overview 
should be off by default. The others should be spread out, for example 
the navigation bar could be set on one side of the application.

Somme other changes could be :

- to activate the north icon and the scale bar for the canevas
- to add a default 10 pixel radius for snapping tolerance and vertex edit
- activate "show makers only for selected features"
- switch to "zoom to mouse cursor" to have the same behavior than most 
of the web-mapping tools

These changes would make the software less frightening, less cluttered 
for newcomers.

Regards,
MORREALE Jean-Roc


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