[QGIS-Developer] QGIS 3 "GPS Information Panel" not fully functional

[C Hamilton]

 Thanks for that explanation. I guess the satellite tab is more for
curiosity than actual value.

The "Signal" tab is there but apparently does not work. That one is useful.
Are there any comments about it?

Thanks!!!


On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 8:41 PM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 at 01:40, C Hamilton <adenaculture at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > In the "GPS Information" panel for QGIS 2 there are two tabs. One of
> Signal strength and the other for "Satellite." The QGIS 3 implementation
> drops the "Satellite" tab and the "Signal" tab shows nothing. Are there
> plans to properly implement these two functions?
>
> Not currently. This was a big blocker during the early transition to
> Qt5 in the beginning of QGIS 3.0 development. The graph widget used to
> show the satellite tab (QwtPolar) is no longer developed and doesn't
> work with Qt5. In the end (after much deliberation) the satellite page
> was temporarily removed from QGIS 3.0 so that we could move on with
> development. And then it turned out that no-one complained and no-one
> was interested in actually doing the work implementing a replacement
> OR funding a developer to do this, so the feature was completely
> dropped.
>
> If someone wants to fund/develop a replacement it will gladly be
> resurrected!
>
> Nyall
>
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