[Qgis-developer] user-defined symbology defaults + project templates

[Nathan Woodrow]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Etienne Tourigny
<etourigny.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm glad others see this as useful!
>
> Any idea when these changes will be available, and if should I wait
> before adding my changes to master? In the meantime, I could perhaps
> push what I have done.
> Currently, the button changes the selected symbol, but it could be
> modified to open the symbol lists. I just thought this way was a bit
> faster.

The reasons I suggested not using a combobox is because with long
names the combobox grows and pushes the size of the dialog box out,
although with a button you are going to have the same issue I guess.
I'm happy for a commit of what you have so far and then we can rework
it once the GSoC stuff is in master.

>
> I like the idea of multiple templates to choose from, but I would
> still like a way to change the global defaults (see answer to Denis).

+1 as long it is obvious that the defaults have been changed.

> Any idea on how to manage the template list from a UI perspective?
> Just have a file sector and have the user place/save the files there,
> and then a dynamic menu which lists these files?

I would have a folder called 'project_templates" in the .qgis folder
and the list could be read from there by default, you could also have
a place in the global settings where you could define other folders to
look for templates.  I might store projects on a network folder so
that other people can access them so it would be good to be able to
tell QGIS to look in there too.

- Nathan