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

Stéphane Henriod stephanebek at gmail.com
Sun Jun 4 11:14:05 PDT 2017


Hi Alessandro

I just downloaded the latest nightly build and will make some tests in the
coming days. What would be the most efficient / useful way to give you
feedback and comments? On this thread?

Thanks and cheers

Stéphane

Le jeudi 1 juin 2017, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> a écrit :

> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Stéphane Henriod <stephanebek at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Alessandro Pasotti
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alessandro Pasotti
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>>
>>
>> --
>>
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>> you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable." --
>> Clifton Fadiman
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Alessandro Pasotti
> w3:   www.itopen.it
>


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