[QGIS-Developer] dataset icons in Browser tree

[Nathan Woodrow]

Are you sure? It's never done that for me, it uses ogr to know what files
it can open.

On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, 7:00 PM McDonaldR <McDonaldR at angus.gov.uk> wrote:

> Smashing!
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> ArcCatalog also collapses down all the constituent parts and shows one
> file in the tree instead of all parts of the shapefile or tab file, for
> example.  However, it also only shows files it can open.   The info button
> in Browser lists all files in the folder regardless of whether QGIS can
> open them or not.  I guess we need to think about what the user wants to do
> with the info they can see in the panel.
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> Ross
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> *From:* Nathan Woodrow [mailto:madmanwoo at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 05 July 2017 09:29
> *To:* McDonaldR; qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [QGIS-Developer] dataset icons in Browser tree
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> Yep I'm down for that, would look pretty nice if we can I think. Bit like
> what VS Code, pycharm etc do for different file types.
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> Would be still handy to see if it's line, point, etc so just need to
> consider that.
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> On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, 6:26 PM McDonaldR <McDonaldR at angus.gov.uk> wrote:
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> Hi List,
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> This might be on the hit list already.  Is it possible to have different
> icons for different file types within the QGIS Browser?  I know the
> standalone Browser is being discontinued but the panel will still be
> available in the core QGIS.  Different icons would be very useful.
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> In the QGIS Browser (app and panel) file system based datasets are listed
> in alphabetical order and each file has either a small raster icon if it is
> an image format or a small polygon icon if it is not.  For database layers
> they have a small point, line or polygon icon.
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> In my second choice GIS (well known!) there is also a browser-like
> application but it shows the files and datasets with different icons
> depending on file and data type.  You can see the icons in the screenshots
> on this page -
> http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/manage-data/using-arccatalog/a-quick-tour-of-arccatalog.htm
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> Ross
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