[QGIS-Developer] Fwd: Ribbon-like UI for QGIS

[Nyall Dawson]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 15:29, Idan Miara <idan at miara.com> wrote:
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> Nyall,
> Thank you for the input!
> Do you think it would be relatively easy to rebase on the latest 2.18 from 2.8?

No, I don't think that would be an easy task at all! Even between 2.8
-> 2.18 there's been thousands, maybe 100's thousands of lines of code
changed.

You'd probably have more luck cherry-picking individual commits
between the kadas branch and QGIS 2.18.

Nyall


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> On Fri, 14 Sep 2018, 02:57 Nyall Dawson, <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 21:41, Idan Miara <idan at miara.com> wrote:
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>> > I see that kadas-albireo it is based on QGIS 2.8.
>> > Are there any plans to rebase to QGIS 3 or to send changes upstream to the official QGIS build ?
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>> Unfortunately I don't think that's even possible now -- the
>> differences between the two codebases is just too extreme, given the
>> HUGE amount of changes made for QGIS 3.0. I suspect the effort of
>> re-writing the changes made in the fork would be less than the effort
>> required to port them now.
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>> Nyall