[Qgis-developer] [PROPOSAL] From srs.db to file-based CRS storage

[Alister Hood]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Duivenvoorde [mailto:rdmailings at duif.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 31 January 2012 10:53 p.m.
> To: Alister Hood
> Cc: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] [PROPOSAL] From srs.db to file-based CRS storage
>
>
> > Yes, favourites would be particularly handy.  I think the best way of implementing them would be to have a little button next to each entry in the recent list to "pin" it to the list.
> > This would be nice and quick and simple.  Does anybody actually use enough CRSs that they really need something more complicated?
>
> Hi Alister,
>
> are you on 1.7.x or on master? Because the crs selector has had an overhaul in master, eg having a filterbox which looks into all fields (names, epsg codes etc).

I'm on master as always ;)
I had assumed the others who were talking about bookmarks and things are also familiar with the new dialog, but I could be wrong.

> And has a 'recently used' list, containing your 8 last used crs's
>
> Does that not for fill your wishes?

Not really - any time you need to work with a few unusual crses, your "favourite" crses will drop off the list.

Personally I don't really have a problem because I only have a couple of favourite crses and I can find them very quickly with the filter.  But not everyone is like me.

A couple of others have mentioned the idea of bookmarks - I was just suggesting a convenient way (pinnable recent items) to implement them without making the user interface more complicated than it needs to be.

Of course, for that suggestion to work well when people use a lot of crses it would also require either:
- the list length to be configurable (or at least more than 8 items), and/or
- the list to show 8 items (or whatever) + however many favourites they define.

Regards,
Alister