[Qgis-developer] Print composer changes: several side-effects

[Andreas Neumann]

 Hi Olivier,

 Thank you for your reply. For me its fine. I had to change other stuff 
 in my layouts anyway (new email address, etc.). I am almost through all 
 the changes.

 My projects have to stay on the current version all the time. They 
 should live for several years and improve gradually - along with 
 improvements in QGIS. It is not an option to have older QGIS versions 
 around for older projects. But that's our problem.

 So basic shapes (rects, ellipses, triangles) should have a black stroke 
 by default - a stroke-width of 0.2 mm, in my opinion. All other elements 
 probably without a frame and background by default. Does this make 
 sense?

 Thanks,
 Andreas

 On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:51:16 +0100, Olivier Dalang wrote:
> Hi !
>
> Those change appear because some properties have been added and some
> removed to make the UI and the code more consistent (removing
> duplicate border color settings for Shape item, for instance).
> Upon opening an old project, the added properties will be set to
> default, while the duplicate one will take the old unused property.
>
> I'd say there's no easy way to avoid such side-effects (without 
> coding
> some dirty compatibility code). One way to handle such changes would
> be to implement a kind of "old version file converter" to allow
> backwards compatibility without making the code too complex.
>
> But I'm not sure that if it's worth it. A general rule in software
> usage is to keep the same version of the software throughout a
> project, an to use new versions only when starting new projects.
>
>
> However, it is possible to discuss if which composer items should 
> have
> a background and/or frame by default. (in your case, this could 
> change
> whether composer items should have a background by default)
>
> For now, I think all the composer items have a white background and 
> no
> frame by default, excepted the ComposerShape which has also a frame.
>
>
> Olivier
>
>
>
> 2013/2/20 Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> With the recent modifications in print composer, while I agree that 
>> the UI
>> has much improved, there are unfortunately also some side-effects. 
>> Here are
>> two problems I have detected:
>>
>> * legend boxes which had a white background now have a transparent
>> background
>> * Basic shapes (like rects, ellipses, triangles) that had a black 
>> border now
>> have either no border or a white border
>>
>> For organizations like us, with a lot of QGIS projects with a lot of
>> different layouts, this is quite annoying if we have to manually 
>> change each
>> of the projects.
>>
>> But I am also aware that we are using master / unstable and that 
>> there are
>> modifications. I can live with such changes but I assume that other 
>> users
>> will have similar problems if backwards compatibility breaks.
>>
>> Just to let you know - thanks for the improvements in the UI!
>>
>> Andreas
>>
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