[Qgis-developer] Renaming Save Style -> Save Properties (Vector layer dialog)

[Zoltan Szecsei]

Certainly, Nathan.
Regards and thanks for prompting me to bring up the subject.

Zoltan


On 2014/03/01 13:52, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> Hey Zoltan,
>
> That pretty much is a thread hijack.  Please start a new thread, and 
> maybe open a ticket for the feature request, which is a good one by 
> the way.
>
> - Nathan
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans at geograph.co.za 
> <mailto:zoltans at geograph.co.za>> wrote:
>
>     On 2014/03/01 12:38, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
>>     Hey all,
>>
>>     I would like to get some opinions on Save, Load, Restore Default
>>     Style.. buttons.  Personally I find these labeled wrong for what
>>     action they take.  Originally these buttons would only save the
>>     information from the Style tab out to a .qml file however now
>>     that has evolved to saving other information that is not related
>>     to style, things like;:the edit forms; included WMS, excluded
>>     WMS, etc.   To me these are more properties of the layer and less
>>     about the style so the name is misleading.  Sharing these also
>>     becomes hard because if I only want the style part it can also
>>     override the label and form settings I have.  Hand editing the
>>     XML is the only real option to remove the other settings, which
>>     is a pain
>>
>>     Proposing: Rename from Save, Load Style to Save Properties, Load
>>     Properties.
>>
>>     Motivation:  I would like to add the ability to save just the
>>     style information out to a new file type (maybe something like
>>     .qstyle) that would just contain the renderer-v2 XML block.  This
>>     would allow sharing of just the renderer style and would also
>>     give me the ability to expand the Style Manager to allow saving
>>     of prebuilt styles e.g I would like to premake a planning scheme
>>     style that all ready contains the right values to symbols that I
>>     could share and load.     By Mixing non style information in the
>>     .qml files means this is not as simple as it could be.
>>
>>     We could also expand the above logic to only save the label
>>     section out to create a label "style" manager.
>>
>>     Thoughts?
>>
>>     - Nathan
>>
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>     Hi All,
>     Please treat this as "thread enhancing" and not "thread
>     hijacking"  :-)
>
>     If there are going to be modifications done to styling, please
>     consider adding a feature whereby the various styles chosen or
>     experimented with, are auto-saved for that mapsheet (perhaps in
>     your project files).
>     I find when editing, edge-matching or QAing various mapsheets, I
>     want to easily switch between styles - I might choose "single
>     symbol" for the map I am editing, but "rule-based" for the
>     adjoining maps. Rule based choices would change depending on
>     scenarios, so it does not make sense to save a rule-based set (I
>     could end up with too many).
>     So, what I am seeking is the ability to switch between the 5 style
>     categories, and not lose the ones I may have set up a few minutes
>     ago. If I close QGIS, and come back to the project later, I would
>     like to see the last styles I had set up for a mapsheet, still be
>     available when I click through the style options.
>
>
>     Hope I'm making myself clear.
>     Thanks & regards,
>     Zoltan
>
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