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

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hey Andreas,

I'm not 100% yet.    I'm not sure what it is but I really hate the Load
Style../Save Style buttons at the bottom of the dialog.  I was thinking a
new page in the properties dialog would be better with the title
Import/Export.  For me this would mean not having a open another dialog,
which I really don't like the idea of, and we have more room to play with.

One of my goals is to be able to export just the style part in order to
expand the Style Manager to handle prebuilt styles.  I was planning on
adding some Save and Load buttons on the style tab that would just load the
style information from the .qml file.

- Nathan


On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How do you envisage to implement this?
>
> Personally I would think it would be useful to have an export dialogue
> where the user can choose (with checkboxes or a list widget) which
> properties he wants to export:
>
> * General properties (like the filtering, encoding, layer alias, scale
> dependent visibility, CRS )
> * Style properties
> * Labeling properties
> * Field properties (incl. display field properties)
> * Actions
> * Joins and Relations (see the new relations manager that Matthias
> recently introduced)
> * Diagrams
> * Metadata
>
> As a shortcut one should be able to export all at once without having to
> press all checkboxes.
>
> ---------------
>
> When importing, the importer of the layer properties should list what is
> available in the .qml file and offer just the available bits of the
> layer properties. Again - a short cut to import all layer properties
> would be useful.
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
>
> Am 01.03.2014 15:42, schrieb Anita Graser:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > Am 01.03.2014, 15:55 Uhr, schrieb kimaidou <kimaidou at gmail.com>:
> >> I also think it could be great to have a button
> >> "save style". But the latest should not lie in the bottom of the layer
> >> dialog, but instead in the Style tab only, to avoid confusion.
> >
> > +1
> >
> >> By the way, having a "save style" button could also lead to the
> >> ability of
> >> saving/restoring more than one style for each layer (via a combo box for
> >> the restore button), which could be great too.
> >
> > This could work quite well. Do you think the "Save style" button could
> > be a simple button with the save icon or do we need a labeled button?
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Anita
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Michael
> >>
> >>
> >> 2014-03-01 15:01 GMT+01:00 Régis Haubourg <
> >> regis.haubourg at eau-adour-garonne.fr>:
> >>
> >>> Hi Nathan I agree with your proposal of renaming style by properties.
> >>> Users don't understand they also inherit labels, metadata and so on
> when
> >>> loading a style.
> >>>
> >>> By the way, I think some improvements can be made for reloading style
> >>> use
> >>> case. Problem occurs (maybe occured, didn't check recently) when user
> >>> want
> >>> to transfer graduated or single value style classes from one column to
> >>> another. Copying style from another table often leads to that
> situation,
> >>> where field or expression is not in target table.   I know this can be
> >>> tricky since graduated classes are in autosync with numeric data.
> >>> Another issue occurs when geometry type is not the same. Maybe we could
> >>> save
> >>> at least color when reapplying style (from point to polygon for
> >>> instance).
> >>> This was my small thread highjack ;-)
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>> Régis
> >>>
> >
> >
> >
>
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