[QGIS-trac] [Quantum GIS] #3249: SVG marker selection by user

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#3249: SVG marker selection by user
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   Reporter:  jtornero                            |              Owner:  nobody       
       Type:  enhancement                         |             Status:  new          
   Priority:  major: does not work as expected    |          Milestone:  Version 1.7.0
  Component:  Symbology                           |            Version:  1.6.0        
   Keywords:  symbology, svg marker, file choose  |   Platform_version:               
   Platform:  SuSE                                |           Must_fix:  No           
Status_info:  0                                   |  
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 It would be nice if the user could select a svg file for using as a
 marker, apart from the default markers provided with Qgis. This gives the
 user the chance of use complex graphics (i.e. complex charts made with
 matplotlib) as marker and even simulate the diagram overlay feature of
 qgis but with more good looking bar charts and pie charts.

 Nowadays a little hack can be done just adding to Qgis' svg folder the svg
 files that you want as marker, but unfortunately the name of the file
 could not be seen in the preview of the marker, so if you want to use a
 marker for a determinate point, for instance, if you want to mark several
 mines with a bar chart summarizing their coal production individually, you
 couldn't tell which svg correspond to which mine, because of the size of
 the svg preview.

 So, my wish focus on a) adding a 'open file' dialog to the marker
 selection dialog or b) at least showing the name of the file of each svg
 in the preview (maybe it could be as simple as just a little popup with
 the name and path of each marker when the mouse is over it)

 Thank you very much for your work

 Best regards

 Jorge Tornero

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3249>
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