[Qgis-developer] Dropping the "render" checkbox

[Nathan Woodrow]

Yeah I'm a -1 on this at the moment.  There have been times that I have
used it even after the new rendering stuff.

- Nathan

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouzaud at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
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