[Qgis-developer] Dropping the "render" checkbox

[Nyall Dawson]

On 28 February 2017 at 15:36, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Ok - given the widespread support for this feature we'll consider this
a "won't fix"!

Nyall