[Qgis-developer] Changing behaviour of "show selected features" mode for attribute table

[Régis Haubourg]

Hi I agree with Nathan, empty table by default will freak out users.
Could we imagine some heuristics that will let the whole table being seen
for reasonable sized tables, and only a subset for huge tables, advertised
by a warning bar ?

I think of displaying visible items in mapcanvas if their number is not too
high, and if still too high, remember to show only selected items?
We need an exception of course for non geometric tables on that.

I would not be shocked by such messages, huge tables should not be entirely
fetched, raising a security fence to the user sounds reasonable to me.
Régis

2017-03-07 8:46 GMT+01:00 Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>:

> Yeah I'm not really ok with a empty table as the default.  I understand
> the point but users are going freak at that.
>
> One option might be to ask users what they want when a table is first
> opened for the first time.  E.g what default mode would you like with some
> notes on each.  This is only asked once and never again but gives the user
> the choice.
>
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 5:43 pm Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouzaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the precision.
>>
>> Then
>> +1 for showing nothing when no selection
>> +0 for "show only selected" as default mode.
>>
>>
>> Le mar. 7 mars 2017 à 08:30, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> a
>> écrit :
>>
>> On 7 March 2017 at 17:23, Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouzaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm a bit confused here.
>> >
>> > At the moment, there is a global option for attribute table widget "show
>> > only selected".
>> > If you choose this option and have a selection, you won't have any mean
>> to
>> > show all the layer unless you deselect and reopen the attribute table
>> (hence
>> > showing all). In other words, switching between show all and show
>> selected
>> > only has no effect and shows only selected features.
>> >
>> > Does your work will fix this i.e. really show all features?
>>
>> In current master and 2.18 branch if you set the attribute table to
>> show only selected, and then open the table and change the filter in
>> the bottom left to "show all", then ALL features will be loaded
>> (regardless of the current/original selection)
>>
>> Nyall
>>
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