[Qgis-developer] Removing old labelling

[Pirmin Kalberer]

Hi,

Am Montag, 5. März 2012, 17.06:16 schrieb Andreas Neumann:
>  Hi,
> 
>  We discussed this issue backwards and forwards and it would be good to
>  make some progress here. There is really not a lot missing in the new
>  labeling and I don't agree with Paolo that the new labeling is slower
>  than the old labeling. It may have different settings and thus people
>  are comparing apples with oranges.
> 
>  It would be good to integrate the labeling 2.0 in the layers dialogue
>  and make it the default.
> 
>  If someone is missing a feature in labeling 2.0 that is present in
>  labeling 1.0 he/she should either work on it or pay someone to work on
>  it. It is not good blocking labeling 2.0 just because some minor aspect
>  is missing.
> 
>  What are the real issues/problems with labeling 2.0?

Please update the existing collection of missing features:
http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Switching_from_Old_to_New_Symbology_and_Labeling

Pirmin


>  On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 22:30:51 +1000, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Jürgen E.  wrote:
> >> I'd say the new labeling should also be integrated into the vector
> >> layer
> >> properties (not sure if there is something implementationwise that
> >> is an
> >> obstacle to that).   In that case we also could have a switch
> >> mechanism like
> >> between old and new labeling.
> > 
> > I'd support this idea. This would help remove the confusion, or at
> > least hide it, until we can remove it in 2.0.  We could do what we
> > did with the symbologly and set it to you use new labelling by
> > default. 
> > I don't mind having the toolbar button but we could change it to
> > just launch the properties -> Labels tab.
> > 
> > - Nathan
> > 
> > Links:
> > ------
> > [1] mailto:jef at norbit.de


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