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

[Larry Shaffer]

Hi Royce,

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Cline, Royce L. <rcline at nd.gov> wrote:

> 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.
>

Please create an issue ticket for this. I don't think anyone has worked on
old labeling for a while. Not sure if it has even been updated to work with
the new vector API.

Regards,

Larry



> 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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