[Qgis-developer] Merge of Arun's summer of code work

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi Arun,

> 3. Old issues: Anything under the sun with respect to Symbology on the bug
> tracker.

This would be great.

Fixing first the issues listed here

http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Switching_from_Old_to_New_Symbology_and_Labeling

would allow to drop the old symbology sooner than later.

cheers

-- Giovanni --