[Qgis-developer] Composer redesign

[Andreas Neumann]

 yes - both would be very nice enhancements to the legend. Esp. Option 
 2. I don't always want to display a text for a legend or layer. So it 
 would be very nice being able to hide the headings (title/group/layer).

 Andreas

 On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:50:22 -0000, James Stott wrote:
> The new composer works fine for me. Nice changes - I like the new
> layout. It's really good to see the composer getting some work on it.
>
> Nathan, just out of interest do you know how much effort it would
> take to implement the following:
>
> 1)	Text over two lines for legend item text
> 2)	Tick boxes to allow you to turn off the following in the vector
> legend on a composer:
> 	a.	Title text
> 	b.	Group text
> 	c.	Layer text
>
> Number 1 above is really holding us back from producing our maps
> straight from QGIS. Some of the text that we have to put in legends 
> is
> too long to go on one line, and just goes off the edge of the page.
>
> 2c above, we do not always want to show text for a layer name (Layer
> Text) but would rather show the text next to the swatch sample on the
> legend (i.e. Item Text in the legend). At the moment to work around
> this we have to set the layer name to nothing and use one of the rule
> based renderers to get text into the item text. The downside with 
> this
> is that if you want to do anything with the layers (i.e. use them in
> any of the tools within QGIS); you cannot see the layer name in any 
> of
> the drop down menus as we have set this to nothing. Having the 
> ability
> to turn off the Layer text in the legend would enable us to give
> layers names, but not have them show up on the legend.
>
> James
>
>
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> [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andreas
> Neumann
> Sent: 05 February 2012 15:23
> To: Nathan Woodrow
> Cc: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Composer redesign
>
> Hi Nathan
>
>> I have changed the add shape to now behave like this.  In the future 
>> it
>> might be best to create a whole toolbar just for drawing stuff but 
>> for now
>> this will do.
>
> cool thanks! yeah - of course one can improve the drawing tools - but
> the question is how far one should go. There are more powerful tools 
> for
> drawing complex elements, like Inkscape.
>
>> I did have some ideas about creating a way to have custom objects so 
>> that
>> you could create a title block from an image, a legend and a label, 
>> then
>> save it as its own object you can drop onto the canvas pre-built. 
>> However
>> that is a little out of my skills and time at the moment so I'll 
>> leave that
>> up to someone else to play with if they are game.
>
> Currently one can use the templates. This works fine for my purpose.
>
> Thanks for the improvements. No issues so far - I will send a 
> bug-report
> if I come across problems.
>
> Andreas
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