[Qgis-developer] Discussion on browser and file extensions

[Etienne Tourigny]

Hi all,

I propose that a reasonable compromise would be the following (by
default) for 1.8:

- show extensions in browser (it is a "file browser" after all, and a
majority have shown support for it)
- no extension in legend nor anywhere else (ui noise, a minority support it)

This can be solved in code by removing the extension in the
QgsDataItem name() member, this way it does not have to be stripped in
drop operations,
and adding a QgsDataItem::fileName() member which the browser would
use for layer items. It very simple to fix now.

And if people really want choice: have an option to disable/enable the
extension display in browser and legend, but do this after 1.8.

Regards,
Etienne

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree.  Showing filetype in the legend is just ui noise that isn't needed. How
> often do you open the same layer from different sources with the same name.
> Even if people do I doubt it would be more then a couple and then the tooltips
> would do fine.  Don't add something that adds UI noise for a 5% use case.
> Like Martain said, keep it simple.  This is what QGIS should aim to excel at.
>
> I'm am in two minds about if extensions should be shown in the browser, again
> I worry that it is UI noise.
>
> - Nathan
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Giuseppe Sucameli
> <brush.tyler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Etienne,
>>
>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Etienne Tourigny
>> <etourigny.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> How about in the legend? I am 50/50 on that as there is always the
>>> option to change the layer names manually, and the tooltip does give a
>>> clue on the filetype.
>>
>> IMHO no extensions should be displayed in the legend as well.
>> I thought I replied, now I notice it's not so clear I was talking about
>> layers in legend.
>>
>> I quote myself:
>>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Giuseppe Sucameli
>>> <brush.tyler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I guess a layer is just a layer. Distinguishing them by extensions just
>>>> means the base name is not complete.
>>>> If you have 2 layers with the same name probably they are different
>>>> and then you should consider to assign them different names.
>>
>> Shortly, neither the drag'n'drop of files from the browser should append
>> the suffix nor the legend should display them, that's my opinion.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> --
>> Giuseppe Sucameli
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