[Qgis-developer] Are there plans to create a unique "Add layer" tool?

[DelazJ]

Hi,
Thanks Anita for this work. I wasn't aware of your tool. Any reason to not
make it available in the Plugins repo? It might get more audience, unless I
overestimate our repo... Btw: I like the title of the blog post. :-)

So other than Anita's plugin, there's currently no ongoing work to unify
the tools.
>From a doc writer's perspective, it's ok; we'll see how we structure the
chapter.
>From a user's one, would be nice to have things moved in the way of a
unified tool in the next releases. Landing in 3.0 could even sound like a
big change between 2.x series and 3.0. Maybe, taking Anita's work as a
first step and ....

Regards,
Harrissou


2017-04-03 6:05 GMT+02:00 Stéphane Henriod <stephanebek at gmail.com>:

> Hi all
>
> I must say that Anita's hack seems quite handy and straight forward from a
> user's perspective. Would it be heavy to "just" integrate into the Master
> QGIS? I would be happy to help with testing. More, I unfortunately cannot
> do :-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Stéphane
>
>
>
> Le lundi 3 avril 2017, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> a écrit :
>
>> Hi Anita
>>
>> On 02 Apr 2017, at 10:21 PM, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Harrisou
>>>
>>> On 02 Apr 2017, at 4:57 PM, DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi devs,
>>>
>>> In the documentation team, we plan to rewrite the "Supported data
>>> formats" chapter (http://docs.qgis.org/2.14/en/
>>> docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/supported_data.html) which
>>> actually explores many of the different ways to add (vector) layers to
>>> QGIS. It's full of redundant information, not easy to maintain and doesn't
>>> expose tools like the browser panel. Discussion at
>>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/issues/1088
>>> <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/issues/1088.> if you want
>>> to help.
>>> Before we engage any time on this restructuring and to avoid doing
>>> things twice and because I read some related assertions in the past, I'd
>>> like to ask if there's any plan to merge some of these tools for 3.0... And
>>> if ever, what's the state of the work ?
>>>
>>>
>>> This has been discussed a number of times, and Nathan made some initial
>>> mockups once. But as far as I know, nobody is actively working on this so I
>>> don't know if anything will land in 3.0.
>>>
>>
>> ​I've been working with my "unified add layer button" modification for a
>> few months now: https://anitagraser.com/2016/07/20/one-add-button-to-ru
>> le-them-all/​
>>
>> Wouldn't want to go back. I still sometimes use the Add PostGIS layer
>> dialog from the menus though.
>>
>>
>> Ah thanks I forgot about your post Anita!
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Anita
>>
>>
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