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

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi all,

> 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.

+1

but also... why not

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/2518

?

cheers!

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