[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #1162: missing possibility to use QML Style for more than one layer

[Quantum GIS]

#1162: missing possibility to use QML Style for more than one layer
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        Reporter:  bjpfei                                     |         Owner:  nobody       
            Type:  bug                                        |        Status:  new          
        Priority:  critical: causes crash or data corruption  |     Milestone:  Version 1.0.0
       Component:  Symbology                                  |       Version:  HEAD         
      Resolution:                                             |      Keywords:               
Platform_version:                                             |      Platform:  All          
        Must_fix:  Yes                                        |   Status_info:  0            
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Changes (by msieczka):

  * priority:  major: does not work as expected => critical: causes crash
               or data corruption
  * type:  enhancement => bug
  * must_fix:  No => Yes

Comment:

 I don't consider this issue as an enhacement request. It is a critical bug
 rather. If re-using QMLs for different layers is not supported, QGIS
 should explicitely prevent it. Otherwise user's project becomes corrupted.
 E.g.:

 1. Set up symbology for a shapefile.

 2. Save the style for this shapefile.

 3. Load it for another Shapefile.

 The 'another' shapefile is now replaced by the Shapefile for which the
 symbology was set-up for in 1. A couple of weird, random issues begin to
 crop out - can't remove some layers in the project, saving and reloading
 the project sometimes make some layers dissapear etc.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1162#comment:1>
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