[QGIS-Developer] Segmentation fault with 'Create raster icons' on and loading a WMS... opinion to remove the preview feature?

[Luigi Pirelli]

or just skip preview only for WMS
Luigi Pirelli

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On 4 October 2017 at 17:02, Luigi Pirelli <luipir at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> related with issue: https://issues.qgis.org/issues/16803
> I strongly agree with Nyall, Pedro Venâncio and Giovanni Manghi to
> remove this feature.
> The rational is:
>
> 1) fix seems hard to find (QgsRasterLayer::previewAsImage is triggered
> 4/6 times and at aqvery refresh => not useful)... hard bu not
> impossible.
> 2) hard to find utility in a so little preview
> 3) who want to spend dev time on fixing it is welcome :)
> 4) Avioid crash is better than a having a not so important feature.
>
> I'll prepare a PR to remove only the option into "Settings ->
> Options... -> Canvas & Legend -> "Create raster icons (may be slow)"
> default is Off.
>
> any opinion?
>
> Luigi Pirelli
>
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