[QGIS-Developer] Discussing qgd files

[Alessandro Pasotti]

Maybe out of scope but I'd like to see an abstraction on top of QgsProject
to be able to load the project from different sources, for instance a REST
API, or a gpkg.


On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 9:20 PM, Régis Haubourg <regis.haubourg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
> Good point indeed.
> In fact, the first implementations where created the database only when
> needed and were also spatialite. It was slowing down a lot the workflow,
> but now you raise the point, I think this was more linked to the spatialite
> db creation time. I'll ask Paul if creating the sqlite .qgd file can only
> be done when first required.
>
> Another point, we kept the qgz format optional, but I think that in the
> end, we probably should discuss if this is not too complicated. We could
> switch to qgz as default format, so that users see only one file, don't get
> bothered with qgd or any associated file anymore.
> Thoughts?
> Régis
>
>
> 2018-03-05 16:03 GMT+01:00 Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In QGIS 3 there is always a qgd file created alongside with QGIS
>> projects. I heard that they are used as auxilliary file to store project
>> specific labels - right?
>>
>> So far fine - but why are these files always created, even if the file
>> isn't used? Couldn't we create them on demand when they are really needed?
>> Currently, they are always created. I almost never use this feature - yet
>> these files are always created.
>>
>> I would assume that these extra files are a source of confusion to our
>> users - and if the project is renamed - most likely they don't know that
>> this file belongs to the same project and should be renamed as well -
>> almost as bad as with shapefiles ...
>>
>> Thanks for your thoughts on this matter,
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>>
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