[QGIS-Developer] Suitability of backporting browser layer preview feature to 3.4?

[Mathieu Pellerin]

Absolutely. It was the right move to not add that as part of backported
browser panel fixes for emergency 3.4.1, but it should ultimately be in the
LTR to fix a feature gone missing regression.



On Tue, Nov 6, 2018, 6:54 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I'm looking for thoughts on whether it's suitable for backporting
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/17447e4b from 3.6 to 3.4.2.
>
> The rationale here is that the loss of layer preview functionality is
> a functional regression from 2.18 (due to us completely dropping the
> standalone browser application in 3.0). The changes are quite small
> and self-contained (a lot of that commit has already been backported
> via other bugfixes).
>
> I've had one customer already question how they can preview layers in
> 3.x as a result.
>
> Is this suitable for a backport?
>
> Nyall
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