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

[Nathan Woodrow]

Andreas,

Something like this is what I was thinking. (With a better UI of course)

http://i.imgur.com/2XbNqlp.png

- Nathan


On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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