[QGIS-Developer] QGIS qgis_editor_widget_styles

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 9/19/19 11:08 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 05:46:34AM +1000, Nyall Dawson wrote:
>> My (very shaky) understanding is that it's designed for some
>> administrator to setup in advance, and isn't exposed anywhere in QGIS
>> ui.

I remember it was designed for implementing Inspire models. Not sure 
about the status of this project.

>> But - to be harsh - this kind of hidden, implementation specific,
>> feature is the kind of thing we should be extremely wary of. Without
>> any documentation or publicly accessible explanation of how it works
>> it's of extremely limited use to QGIS users. At the minimum it should
>> have been accompanied by a documentation PR explaining how it should
>> be used.
> I agree. I'd actually call for dropping this whole support, and if
> someone will cry to keep it we'll have someone to talk with about
> moving this whole support to a plugin ?

How about deprecating this functionality to drop it with QGIS 4 and 
starting with 3.12 raise a warning that this is deprecated functionality?

This will leave some lead time to jump in before deprecation and some 
lead time to react before removal.

Matthias

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