[QGIS-Developer] Broken 'randomness' for new layer styles?

[Régis Haubourg]

Hi guys,
having default colors is really nice, great to see some work there. But
aren't we in a feature freeze period.?

I plead for the great "release often" mantra that we tend to forget these
times. 4 months between two releases is fairly short most users can live
without perfect random colors.
3.0 is not the holy grail, we'll have plenty of time for new fun features
in the future.

To be more crude, I see no fun in building a gigantic pile of untested new
features. Please also listen the complaints of the documentation team, but
also of the silent clients who try to build there IT plans on QGIS.

Sorry for that,  I like when it's fun, but this time, I really don't get
what makes it critical to do this now, and not within a months in 3.1
branch.

Regards
Régis

2018-02-05 5:48 GMT+01:00 Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>:

> On 3 February 2018 at 19:04, Raymond Nijssen <r.nijssen at terglobo.nl>
> wrote:
>
> > I think those colors should be:
> > - not too dark (too close to black)
> > - not too close to grey
> > - not bright yellow, since this is the selection color
>
> Totally agree
>
> > Another thought here, for polygons I find myself changing the standard
> black
> > outline to a darker and opaque version of the fill color. And often I
> prefer
> > using a transparent fill color cause it makes it much easier to viewing
> > results on the background map. Could this be the default or an option?
>
> Me too. However - I don't think this should be default behavior. The
> reason is that if we make the initial outline color a non-desaturated
> color (say dark blue if a polygon layer is assigned a blue fill
> color), then this outline color is kept whenever a
> categorized/graduated style is applied to the layer. So you'd end up
> with classes with different colors (say red/green/yellow) having a
> dark blue outline color. This is going to be ugly, yet a lot of users
> may not notice AND even if they do it's non-trivial to change this for
> new QGIS users.
>
> So I'd rather stick with the safer option and keep the
> "make-the-outline-a-darker-version-of-the-fill" as an advanced users
> tweak.
>
> Nyall
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