[Qgis-developer] New API for labeling Engine?

[Régis Haubourg]

Hi all, 
I just saw a recent commit labeled "New API for labeling engine
(QgsLabelingEngineV2)" [0]

Can anyone tell us more on that work that seems very promising?

My question is not totally innocent, I just launch funding to start QEP's
work on labeling improvements. I would like that QGIS can handle several
features, but need to fund exploratory work before knowing how to do that
exactly:
  - add core ability to draw callouts between features and labels
  - add new label types, that wan be labeled on "paths", just like ESRI
annotations. 
  - port to C++ features currently available in EasyCustomLabeling Plugins
and Mask plugin. 
       - generate layers dedicated to manual labeling (addition of data
defined fields).
       - Allow to mask labels outside of an area of interest, and allow
Atlas to use it in batch use cases.

Thanks for your lights, and maybe we could share our targets here (I know,
you are fast.. we are slow.. ;)). 

All the best
Régis



[0]
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/1d0d0e06622563502fc24973256f427f9eb6ebc8





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