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

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hey Mathieu,

Yeah this makes sense to me.  It's only really used when you have the
legend open so it's good to have it close.

- Nathan


On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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