[Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Shortcut changes in QGIS; call for opinions

[Borys Jurgiel]

Dnia piątek, 29 listopada 2013 10:18:26 Andreas Neumann pisze:
> As long as we don't have an undo option I would like to have the
> confirmation question always when removing one or more layers. It is not
> something that people do all the time, so it wouldn't be annoying. 

It seems there are at least two opposite approaches in the TOC usage. When you 
do any kind of data processing, you have billions of intermediate layers you 
have to remove one by one, and it doesn't hurt you if you remove too much, as 
you don't care about their style. Furthermore, then you have to remove them 
all from disk and it also isn't especially dangerous if you only use 
reasonable versioning and backups. Also I guess every admin spending her/his 
days on browsing and fixing countless layers from her/his users might agree 
with me.

But you're right, I didn't consider your point of view, and seems that one is 
definitely more popular. For the non-confirmation variant, I can see two 
solutions:

1. We already have a number of actions without default shortcut. Maybe we 
could create an action that is neither placed in any menu/toolbar nor assigned 
to any shortcut by default. Just waiting to be connected to a custom shortcut 
if anybody wants it.

2. If we don't want to make such "orphan" actions, let's drop it. I'll write a 
supersimple plugin for adding non-standard actions and release it if anyone 
interested.




> I
> also accidentally removed layers with right-click and there was no
> confirmation that stopped me. So I would prefer to have the confirmation
> when removing layers in all cases.
> 
> Andreas
> 
> Am 29.11.2013 07:56, schrieb Richard Duivenvoorde:
> > On 28-11-13 23:19, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> >> Given that adding/removing a complex layer can be expensive and there is
> >> no undo I would suggest to have a single key shortcut (D) with confirm
> >> and a modified one without (Ctrl-D).  You want to avoid the user doing
> >> something dangerous and in this case that is removing a layer layer
> >> without undo.
> > 
> > Personally I do not like to add more then one key for the same action,
> > keep stuff simple.
> > 
> > Although we could make confirmation an option, the number of options in
> > the options dialogs are also growing and growing. I've already a lot of
> > options to tweak for a new user to make it the best way for him/her.
> > 
> > If we do a a first time dialog with a 'do not ask me anymore', that is
> > nice, BUT it means that we have to put a way to undo that somewhere in a
> > dialog/option too (while the logic code actually is easy: just an extra
> > if/flag).
> > 
> > Let's keep the interface as simple/logical/friendly as possible
> > especially for non power users.
> > 
> > Could we maybe create some poweruser options list (like gnome-settings
> > or :config in firefox). In which we put this kind of flags?
> > So no cluttering of the interface with 'do not ask' actions or more
> > options in the options dialogs. But only a list of configs which you
> > could use.
> > Which in practice would actually be a Qtable with filter for QSettings
> > of QGIS, in my case: ~/.config/QGIS/QGIS2.conf
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Richard Duivenvoorde
> > 
> > ps Borys: we should not be afraid of some regression if it makes QGIS
> > better in general :-)
> > 
> > 
> > 
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