[Qgis-developer] Rotation status and PSC meeting

[Mathieu Pellerin]

Sandro,

The last few weeks has been a nice leap forward when it comes to your
rotation feature, congratulation on that.

IMO, based on the improvements, it's worth considering _removing the
activation option altogether_ from the preference window. I can't see
any stability and usability issue that would warrant disabling it.

That said, in my view, a basic composer support (i.e. map item's
rotation feature) should be moved at the top of your priority list.
Right now, the benefits of your rotation work _cannot_ be exported
outside of the QGIS canvas, which IMO is a serious limitation. In most
of my QGIS workflows, the final cartographic products are exported
through the composer to obtain an high resolution file that can be
printed out (i.e. I can't just go save the canvas as an image :) ).
Not having map items make use of your rotation feature is a
significant restriction.

Cheers, and thanks again for the work,

Math


On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
> I've spent more time on rotation (only partially funded), fixing:
>
>  - Label pre-rotation (#11814)
>  - North Arrow Decoration (#11818)
>  - Grid decoration (#11817)
>
> Leftover issues (open for funding):
>
>  - Plugin layers (#11900) -- needs feedback
>  - Overview map (#11862) -- minor, IMHO
>  - Composer support (#11912) -- wish ?
>  - Atlas doesn't consider map rotation when setting scale (#11954)
>
> Please report any other issue that might arise with rotation enabled
> and properly tag it with the "rotation" label.
>
> I'd like to partecipate to the PSC meeting tomorrow but it is only
> possible for me before 18:00 CET. I hadn't found the schedule here:
> http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/17/PSC_Meeting_16_January_2015
> At what time do you plan to meet ?
>
> --strk;
>
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