[Qgis-developer] Dropping the "render" checkbox

[Neumann, Andreas]

Hi, 

Sorry for joining the discussion late - was on holidays until yesterday
evening. 

I am a +1 for removing the "render" checkbox - but first fix the case
Denis has with labeling. If there are other issues besides that, I would
also consider them a bug. Imagine if you had to freeze/unfreeze display
in MS Office, Inkscape or Adobe Software - users would ask the devs to
fix the rendering behaviour ... 

We have the second round of QGIS grants proposals. Would be a good
project to submit to fix this issue. See
http://blog.qgis.org/2017/02/19/qgis-grants-2-call-for-grant-proposals-2017/
- proposals should be submitted until March 19. 

I would assume that mapCanvas().setRenderFlag( False ) would still be
possible for Python plugins to use, if the render checkbox would be
removed. 

Andreas 

On 2017-02-28 22:33, Nyall Dawson wrote:

> 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
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