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

[Alexandre Neto]

Hello all,

At Boundless we are planning to put some development time in this "unified
add layer" button/feature. As others already did, our idea was to use the
browser panel as a base for replacing most of the buttons and add any
capabilities that are still missing.

So, let's work together to find what are those missing pieces, and how it
would be the best way to implement it. We will put our thoughts in the
Google document. As soon we have it stabilized we can start creating a QEP
for it.

Thanks,

Alexandre Neto

Stéphane Henriod <stephanebek at gmail.com> escreveu no dia quinta, 6/04/2017
às 12:14:

Thanks Harrissou!

I took the liberty to remove the first table (that I created) and to leave
only yours. It is more complete anyway

Cheers

Stéphane


Le mercredi 5 avril 2017, DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> a écrit :

I took the liberty to do some changes to the doc (especially add a new
table with more detailed features on the existing tools + comments). It's
supposed to replace the table already drafted but I didn't go so far
without a review.

2017-04-05 10:36 GMT+02:00 DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com>:

Hi Stéphane,
actually there's no more UX team (list). UX mailing list has been shut down
months ago because it used to refer to dev list for most of
decisions/advices so UX matters are now discussed either in the dev mailing
list (we maybe can keep this thread) or, I guess until QGIS3 release, in
the qgis3_UIX_discussion repository.


Regards,
Harrissou

2017-04-05 10:19 GMT+02:00 Stéphane Henriod <stephanebek at gmail.com>:

Hi all

there have been a few additions in the Gdoc already (not sure from whom)
but I don't know if this is already sufficient for developers to take this
up?

Also, I am not sure how to reach out to the UX team. Through a separate
mailing list? Or is it sufficient to have it here
https://github.com/qgis/qgis3_UIX_discussion/issues/1 ?

Cheer

Stéphane


Le mardi 4 avril 2017, Stéphane Henriod <stephanebek at gmail.com> a écrit :

Thanks Nyall!

Here I just created a Gdoc to collect info mentioned in your points 1-4 + a:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aMX9jOfl10q8oETRzOHSHnRpHCc7UJ1dDnCCq3VyTAY/edit?usp=sharing

All interested, feel free to contribute, I might not have the full overview

Thanks and cheers

Stéphane



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you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable." --
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2017-04-04 13:53 GMT+06:00 Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>:

On 4 April 2017 at 17:46, Stéphane Henriod <stephanebek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks a lot Anita for the info!
>
> I re-located the issue: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/9451
>
> Not sure though if this will make it alive again. Let's see if this seems
to
> be a priority for enough users...
>

I'd say a good plan to move this forward would be to:

1. conduct a thorough survey of what's available via the individual
add vector layer dialogs vs what's currently available in the browser
2. rank each of the missing settings vs whether or not they are still
required
3. file issues for these missing settings
4. ...and get these fixed/implemented

a. While this is underway I'd also suggest the UX team could test and
evaluate Anita's plugin to identify whether the browser alone is a
sufficient replacement or whether some tweaks would be required to
make it a suitable replacement without any loss of "user friendliness"

1,2,3 and (a) don't require any development experience, so would be a
great project for any interested user to undertake. I suspect 4
wouldn't be much work for a developer either after all this groundwork
is done.

Nyall




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