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

[Stéphane Henriod]

I really look forward to testing it :-) Thanks a lot for our involvement
here!


Le mercredi 31 mai 2017, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> final update: the development of what was in phase 1 is done.
>
> Actually, a bit more than phase 1 considering that we've redesigned the
> delimited text dialog GUI and I've done quite a bit of small refactorings
> of the providers selection dialogs interfaces.
>
> There has been a lot of feed-back, thank you all!
>
> As expected, there is no complete agreement over the final GUI bits for
> the menus and toolbars, and we still miss an icon (the green plus that I've
> used was only meant as a placeholder). I tried to keep the old toolbar
> available (disabled by default) mainly because it can spare a click and
> power users might want it back. Also, the new icon is the most prominent in
> the left bar and it's the first menu item in the layers menu.
>
> I have not a strong opinion about those toolbars and menus but I think I
> should wait no more and merge it as it is, then give the people some time
> to test the actual implementation and decide how to improve it.
>
> I kept the controversial part in a single commit so that it will be very
> easy to revert and propose a different placement for menus, icons and
> toolbars.
>
>
> Any objections if I proceed?
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','apasotti at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> a quick update:
>>
>> I've prepared a PR with a working prototype in
>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/4629, I need some feed-back and some
>> help, expecially UX/UI about if we want it as a dockable dialog too (and
>> how to make it user-configurable).
>>
>> Feed-back welcome (but please keep it limited in scope to phase 1).
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde <
>> rdmailings at duif.net <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rdmailings at duif.net');>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 19-05-17 01:23, Nyall Dawson wrote:
>>>
>>> > On this note - I've recently discovered the need for some type of
>>> > reusable layer selection widget which allows choice of existing
>>> > layers/loading new layers from the file system/loading new layers from
>>> > available db/online connections. This would be extremely valuable for
>>> > processing too!
>>> >
>>> > So I'm really glad to hear that you'll be pushing ahead with this work
>>> > - thanks Boundless!
>>>
>>> Yep, and thanks Alessandro for the screenie. Makes me want more!
>>>
>>> @Nyall in Essen the talk was to start with what Alessandro wrote in his
>>> email, so 1 dialog 'merging' all buttons/widgets/dialogs into one, reuse
>>> as much as possible. So it was possible to get it into 3.0
>>>
>>> Off course people (.../me) started brainstorming about features which
>>> w/could be added too :-)
>>>
>>> Your idea adds (I think) to the idea to make some kind of
>>> 'datamanagement-console' in near future, where you can create/copy
>>> data(!), move data around (browser part) or delete it.
>>> Your note fits in this isn't it?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Alessandro Pasotti
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>>
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> Alessandro Pasotti
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