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

[Matthias Kuhn]

Yes, kill it for WMS please

On 10/04/2017 05:07 PM, Luigi Pirelli wrote:
> or just skip preview only for WMS
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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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