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

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Stéphane Henriod <stephanebek at gmail.com>
wrote:

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

Thanks to Boundless for funding the development and thanks to all of you
who participated with design, mockups, ideas, comments and reviews!

This was a nice and effective cooperation.


BTW, if you can't wait, a Docker with a nigthly build of the PR branch is
available as "boundlessgeo/qgis-testing-environment:unified-button"

Cheers


>
> 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>
>> 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> 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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>>>
>>>
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>>> Alessandro Pasotti
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>> Alessandro Pasotti
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