[Qgis-developer] Can we remove old labeling from the UI

[Cline, Royce L.]

This is also my experience. Importing a 1.8 project, the default label of "Label" is displayed. I tried using the old labeling in a new project with shape files, postgres and SpatialLite tables. Labeling works for the first field in the attribute table. Any other field and the default label is displayed. Unless this is fixed there is no reason to keep the old labeling. Using Friday's nightly build from Dakota Cartography on OS X 10.8.3.

Royce


On Jun 9, 2013, at 1:59 PM, Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. <marco.lechner at fossgis.de>
 wrote:

> I thought there also was the target or wish making QGIS able to
> read/interpret the old labels (e.g. when opening a 1.8 qgs project
> file). My experiences are that this does not work. (Even using the old
> label dialog in qgis-master does not work properly) Therefore IMHO the
> old labeling is useless.
> 
> Marco
> 
> Am 09.06.2013 19:28, schrieb Tim Sutton:
>> Hi
>> 
>> I also think we should hide the old labelling dialog. I think Larry
>> was working on migration logic that would allow old labels to be
>> converted to new. I cant remember if he kept this back for 2.1 though.
>> Assuming its not ready, we should follow Nathan's suggestion of hiding
>> the old labels tab unless the project file indicates it is needed.
>> 
>> PS optimisation wise couldnt we just have a 'quick' mode that draws a
>> maximum of n labels pre render?
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
>>> Marco Hugentobler is currently working on optimizing the labeling of
>>> area features. Because it is feature-freeze I don't know if this will be
>>> added to 2.0 or delayed for 2.1 - maybe the PSC can make a decision
>>> about this.
>>> 
>>> Personally I would recommend to get rid of the old labeling now.
>>> 
>>> Andreas
>>> 
>>> Am 09.06.2013 12:47, schrieb Borys Jurgiel:
>>>> The only thing I *REALLY* miss in the new labelling is an optional FAST method
>>>> to put labels just in poligon centroids with ommiting any expensive collision
>>>> algorithms. When just browsing data the speed is priority, I don't need
>>>> beautiful map, I need to FAST put ANY labels to see what is in polygons.
>>>> 
>>>> Unless it's not available in the new labelling, we make a regression, removing
>>>> one of the most fundamental features. Please correct me if I'm missed some PAL
>>>> option that I can disable to achieve a significant boost.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Dnia niedziela, 9 czerwca 2013 o 12:13:01 MORREALE Jean Roc napisał(a):
>>>>> What is the status ? Are we going to keep a deprecated label tab for the
>>>>> next 3 years ?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Le 26/05/2013 14:37, Nathan Woodrow a écrit :
>>>>>> Can we finally remove the old label UI from the layer properties dialog?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  Could we remove it by default and just enable it for old project that
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> have old labels defined.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> - Nathan
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