[Qgis-developer] Proposal: move the "Remove layer(s)" button

[aperi2007]

I know this,
but my response is enlarged to a more conceptual problem.

How avoid that an user could be confusing from when it act on a logical 
level of interface,
and when it act on a physical data.

I understand that removing mean always remove and so 1 only button is 
better than two.

But my question is :
if we remove the "remove layers" leaving only the "remove this" that is 
available in the context-menu (i dont see the new legend again).

Seem quite logical to question:
why there is a "remove this" only command and there is instead an "add 
layer" and an "add group" seaprated.

Why two "add" and "one" remove ?

So the next logical question is why not remove the two add ad introduce 
only an unique "add here" in the context-menu ?
:)

So my response was to a path that can start with the remove button and 
logically end on the "add button".

Regards,

Andrea.



Il 06/09/2014 08:12, Mathieu Pellerin ha scritto:
>
> I don't think you should comparing adding group/dataset against 
> deleting a group/dataset legend layer. The latter is already unified 
> via either a single keyboard shortcut and a single mouse right-click 
> -> remove action.
>
> On 6 Sep 2014 13:04, "aperi2007" <aperi2007 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:aperi2007 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>     I guess in a GIS oriented product
>     Is necessary to avoid to mix the interface characteristics (the
>     group is an interface object) and the data characteristics (the
>     shapefile is not an interface object).
>
>     I guess more beter if add/remove dataset is separated phisically
>     from add/remove a group.
>
>     The dataset is a phicical think. The shapefile is using separately
>     from the qgis project.
>     The group is not separately from qgis project.
>
>     I guess is good question to have a "remove group" but avoiding to
>     have a only button "ADD Everything" or an only button "Remove
>     everything"
>
>     Also I guess is important to help to understand when we are on
>     dataset (physical) and when we are on interface (logical).
>
>     Regards,
>
>     A.
>
>     Il 06/09/2014 07:10, Mathieu Pellerin ha scritto:
>>     Greetings,
>>
>>     I'd like to circulate a UX proposal and see how people react.
>>
>>     For a very long time, QGIS' Layers toolbar has featured a "Remove
>>     layer(s)" button. I have seen two issues with the button:
>>     - Its placement becomes really odd when plugins add button(s) to
>>     the Layers toolbar (for e.g. the New Memory Layer plugin as
>>     pictured here [ http://imgur.com/CEcIC3K,QvUzrti ])
>>     - It can only remove vector/raster layers, won't remove groups
>>
>>     With the recent improvements done by Martin Dobias on the legend,
>>     and in particular with his addition of a layer panel embedded
>>     toolbar, I propose that:
>>     - The "Remove layer(s)" button be moved to the layer panel
>>     embedded toolbar [ http://imgur.com/CEcIC3K,QvUzrti#1 ]
>>     - The button functionally is improved so it can also deal with
>>     the removal of group(s)
>>
>>     Alternatively, we could get rid of the button altogether since
>>     layers and groups can be removed via right click or keyboard
>>     shortcut, but I suspect the touch screen based users might object.
>>
>>     Any objection to moving the button to the new layers toolbar?
>>
>>     Math
>>
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