[Qgis-developer] Deactivate raster icon generation by default

Werner Macho werner.macho at gmail.com
Thu Jun 27 02:31:10 PDT 2013


Hmm . I just tested and looked ..
It seems that it is already deactivated by default ..
deleting the .qgis2 folder and start from scratch showed that it is not
active ..
probably it's something from an earlier installation?

can anyone confirm?


On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:

> +1 for "off" by default.
>
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> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> A discussion on the german fossgis-user group revealed that generating
>> raster previews slows down raster loading a lot. Esp. for VRT raster
>> catalogs.
>>
>> Can we set this setting (Settings -> Options -> Canvas and Legend ->
>> Create Raster Icons (may be slow)) to off by default for new users?
>>
>> I think performance is much more important than raster icons in the
>> legend. In >90% cases you cannot see a think in these small raster icons
>> anyway. Also, a new user would not have the idea to turn this particular
>> setting off to speed up raster loading. Even I was not aware of it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andreas
>>
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