[Qgis-developer] Legend refactoring branch merged

[Rouzaud Denis]

Congratulations for this big cleanup!

I am really glad we (SIGE) could help this project to come true.



On 21 May 2014, at 19:11, Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone
> 
> I have just merged the first part of the legend refactoring work to
> master [1]. It does not really bring any new features for the end
> user, the changes are mainly under the hood. Things should ideally
> work as before, if not then probably it is a bug.
> 
> There will be second part of the work related mainly around improved
> layer symbology display in legend, more interactive legend and more
> options for customization. At Lutra Consulting we are still looking
> for funders willing to co-fund the work. At this point let me thank
> SIGE and Swiss QGIS User Group for supporting the project.
> 
> Please test thoroughly - the legend has received quite a lot of
> features over time, so there could be still some minor features I have
> missed to port to new implementation.
> 
> The format of the project file has changed, but there is backward
> compatibility with older projects which should allow seamless
> transition. Once saved with 2.4, the older versions of QGIS will loose
> the information about grouping.
> 
> If you are interested in studying the new code, there are two new
> folders of interest:
> - src/core/layertree
> - src/gui/layertree
> There is basic doxygen documentation for the new core classes, I plan
> to add more, add python bindings and unit tests.
> 
> Regards
> Martin
> 
> [1] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/b2a4c765b4e8a3fa00385a56a358952f46a1957a
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