[Qgis-developer] Modes of Identify Tools removed?

Andreas Neumann a.neumann at carto.net
Fri Apr 25 06:07:51 PDT 2014


Hi,

Thanks for the clarification. Makes sense. We will need to cover this in
the manual, though. Is there an issue to deal with it in the
documentation already opened?

Andreas

Am 25.04.2014 13:02, schrieb Nathan Woodrow:
> Hey Andreas,
> 
> Yes I removed these because there were inconstant in there usage and caused
> a lot of confusion.  The options have all been moved to the identify dock
> and can be change while using the tool.  The auto open form checkbox has
> also been moved there.  Because auto opening the attribute form is not
> always something that you want to do it doesn't make sense to make it a
> option in the Options dialog.
> 
> The identify dock is now also always opened and contains the results even
> if there is only one.  This is to make the experience with the tool more
> constant.  The previous method of sometime opening the dock, sometimes the
> attribute table, sometimes having features, other times not, is way too
> confusing.
> 
> The identify dock is now a forced dock because it also doesn't make sense
> to have it a dialog window. If you need it floating you can tear it off
> like the legend.  The best method for the dock is now to dock behind or
> under one of the other docks, I normally go below the legend.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed that the different modes of the Identify tool were removed, at
>> least from the settings.
>>
>> Was there consensus on this?
>>
>> Some colleagues of mine prefer other modes than the layer choice, e.g.
>> the Drill down, stop at first.
>>
>> Also the other options (like dock window and feature form if single
>> feature is identified) were removed - and I think they were quite useful
>> to have.
>>
>> I think it makes sense to keep these options.
>>
>> Andreas
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