[QGIS-Developer] Discussing default snapping and node editing settings

[Denis Rouzaud]

Hi Aurelio,

That's what the advanced digitizing mode is made for, you can define per
layer settings.

Denis

Le mer. 12 sept. 2018 à 13:13, Aurelio Pires <anvpires at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> Editing the active layer is appropriate, but you may need to snap to
> another layer even if it is for reference.
> The best would be for the user to be able to tell which layers to use as a
> snap.
>
> APires
>
>
> On 2018-09-12 15:57, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that by default QGIS is set to edit ALL layers and also snaps to
> ALL layer by default. I do think that this is a bad default setting, esp.
> with larger projects.
>
> We had issues because users had WFS layers in their project (read only, as
> reference) and QGIS tries to index these WFS layers and to get their
> vertices in order to snap to them. Then QGIS hangs and freezes and there
> are network time outs. Apparently one has to kill QGIS using the task
> manager.
>
> I think the better default is to edit and snap only in the active layer by
> default.
>
> Opinions?
>
> Andreas
>
>
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