[Qgis-developer] Do we need a single select map tool?

Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.asia at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 05:59:33 PDT 2014


So maybe we could change the default selection tool to rectangle? One of
the first thing I personally always do when using a fresh qgis (with
default settings) is to change selection tool to rectangle for the reason
Nathan raised this thread.
On 1 Jul 2014 19:38, "Nyall Dawson" <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 01/07/2014 9:55 pm, "Nathan Woodrow" <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > I would like to propose that we remove the single select map tool.
> >
> > Main reason to remove is its function is redundant as the rectangle
> select does a single point select if you don't drag i.e single click.  I
> live in rectangle select mode 99% of the time and never have any issues.
> >
> > As the rectangle select can already do both actions I don't really see
> the need to keep both tools when one would suffice.
>
> -1 from me. No scientific reason why, but it would just seem wrong to me
> to always use the rectangular selection tool.
>
> Nyall
>
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