[Qgis-developer] Modes of Identify Tools removed?

[Nathan Woodrow]

Not currently no.

Yes it will be a update issue with things like this but I think it's worth
the little bit of pain.

I'm hoping to have the docs stuff building at some stage so I can help
update stuff that I break.

- Nathan




On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>wrote:

> 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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>
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