[Qgis-developer] Decorations on the View Menu

[jr.morreale at enoreth.net]

Le 2013-04-24 22:37, Tim Sutton a écrit :
> Hi
>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Antonio Locandro
> <antoniolocandro at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I just tried this feature and my impression is why is this enabled 
>> on the
>> canvas view? This features are more suitable for the composer and 
>> having two
>> ways to achieve something is not always a good thing. You can 
>> control in a
>> better way how things look in the composer anyway. For me it doesn't 
>> make
>> sense to have this enabled in the Canvas
>
> Having scale (scalebar) and distance (via grid) is handy when panning
> around in the map view, taking application screenshots, screencasts,
> exporting the canvas as an image etc. These features are disabled by
> default so they should not cause you any interference if you don't
> want to use them. The copyright decoration functionality could
> probably be replaced by current map annotations implementation I
> guess...

I second that, most of my users need this enabled to "get" the scale of 
the things displayed (so they can stop editing nodes when the scale is 
at 4cm...). QGIS isn't just a composing tool.

As I already said, this should even be a default : always useful for 
those who needs it, disabled once & for all for those who don't.