[QGIS-Developer] project properties menu item: move it?

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
wrote:

> I would prefer it as well, if Linux/KDE would have it in the project menu.
>
> I had a brief look at it with Nyall in Nodebo - somehow someone (some
> years back) claimed, that KDE had it in the HIG (human interface guideline)
> that everything settings related should be in the settings menu.
>
> But I think it creates more harm than that it helps.
>

100% agreed: I think that was meant for "application" settings, not for
project settings.



Andreas
>
> On 2017-09-21 12:35, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
>
> Please move it for every OS.  There is no reason this needs to be in the
> settings menu for different systems.
>
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 8:03 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Alessandro,
>>
>> It depends on the OS.
>>
>> As to my knowledge, Linux with KDE is the only platform where the project
>> properties are in the settings menu, whereas Windows, OSX and Linux with
>> Gnome all have it in the project menu.
>>
>> When I teach QGIS I always have to say people that on my machine
>> (Linux/KDE) the project properties are in the settings menu, while on 99%
>> of the other machines it is in the project menu.
>>
>> It is indeeed VERY, VERY annoying, that KDE behaves different in this
>> respect.
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>> On 2017-09-21 11:57, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
>>
>>
>> What do you think about moving the project properties menu item from the
>> settings menu to the project menu?
>>
>>
>>
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