[Qgis-developer] Dropping the "render" checkbox

[Denis Rouzaud]

Hi,

I'm a big -1 on this.

We often use this for digitizing operations such as manual label placement.

If you have a projects which takes quite some time to render, it is very
powerful to
1. place the canvas at the proper extent
2. disable rendering
3. move all the labels needed
4. re-enable rendering for controlling

In our project, I roughly estimate that using this methodology makes the
operation 2 to 3 times faster.

Although I agree the status bar is a bit overloaded.
I would propose to:
*  remove the text and go for a checkable button
* maybe rephrase "render" to "freeze canvas", so you would need to activate
the button to stop rendering.

Sorry for that devs ;)

Denis



Le mar. 28 févr. 2017 à 06:36, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> Hi all,
>
> Was just chatting to Martin about this - and we both think it's time
> to drop the "render" checkbox from the status bar.
>
> This setting is a bit of a remnant from the pre-multithreaded
> rendering days. Now, there shouldn't be any benefit in switching it on
> ---- and if there is ----- there's a bug which we need to fix!
>
> There's not much code this saves, but it does help de-clutter the
> crowded status bar.
>
> Any objections?? Does anyone still need this checkbox?
>
> Nyall
> _______________________________________________
> Qgis-developer mailing list
> Qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/attachments/20170228/7034b007/attachment.html>