[QGIS-Developer] "Actions" menu in feature forms

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 7:05 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
wrote:

> Hi Alessandro,
>
> Originally, there was the idea to introduce a menu that lists more than
> just actions. See https://issues.qgis.org/issues/10288
>
> e.g. also to list derived information based on a feature (same information
> that is also available in the panel of the info tool.
>
> I am sure that other people would find other ideas to extend this menu.
>
> But I agree with you, that an empty menu is not so nice. Would you suggest
> hiding the menu if nothing is in there?
>

Yes, I suppose it's better to hide it when it's empty.

Anyway - i don't think it is a major problem - either way. We have other
> more ugly things ... UI-wise.
>


Not  a good reason to add another one ;-)


Andreas
>
> On 2018-05-17 18:55, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 6:49 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Alessandro,
>>
>> If you had any "Actions" defined on the layer, this menu would list all
>> assigned actions and you could start them from there.
>>
>
> Thanks for your answer Andreas!
>
> This is a nice feature, but I don't think it's a good UX/UI to have a menu
> which is empty by default.
>
> What do you think?
>
>
>
>> Andreas
>>
>> On 2018-05-17 18:43, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
>>
>> In current master there is an empty "Actions" menu in the forms.
>>
>> What is it?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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> Alessandro Pasotti
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>
>
>


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