[Qgis-developer] What will be in QGIS 2.0

[Etienne Tourigny]

I would like to see better color map support in rasters, by taking
advantage of existing capabilities in symbologyv2  - such as the
Gradient and ColorBrewer  Color Maps

Etienne

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Marco and I have been discussing version 2.0 and wanted to bring the
> discussion onto the list. In particular we are interested in:
>
> - When is a reasonable date to aim for the release?
> - What features will be part of 2.0?
> - What things are we going to clean away for the release?
>
> Here are a list of the possible things that could go into 2.0 that we
> came up with:
>
> - QgsGeometry Refactor to support arcs, measures, 3d geometries and
> geometry collections (Marco is working on this though unless he is
> funded to work on it it is unlikely to happen for 2.0)
> - Threading branch and threaded data provider refactor (a long time
> ago in GSOC project far away Martin Dobias got much of the ground work
> in place but the delta between his branch and master is huge now)
> - Raster refactor to use new renderer architecture, native WCS
> support, pipelines, 'save as' support and more (this work is being
> funded by the World Bank and will be available in master over the next
> 3 months)
> - GSOC project for symbology UI redesign / improvements (how is this
> work going?)
> - GSOC project for on the fly feature generalization (also how is this going)
> - Addition of Sextante into QGIS as a standard plugin (assuming that
> sits well with Victor)
>
> What else do we miss from the list? Are any others out there actively
> working on features / funding features that we should be aware of?
>
> In terms of decrufting, it would be good to remove all the duplicated items:
>
> - twin labelling systems
> - unified add layer dialogs
> - twin symbology systems
> - about 15 ways to generate hillshades
> - too many toolbars / icons by default
> - remove all deprecated calls from the API
>
> Are there any other things that folks would like to add to the
> discussion for the roadmap for version 2.0?
>
> Regards
>
>
>
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