[Qgis-user] Re: Delete a field via GUI

[Giovanni Manghi]

> I think it's important to have applied it in OGR as soon as possible. Do you
> have some tips useful to solicit for it?


http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2671



> Probably it seems something not so important, but I think it puts qgis (with
> a certain type of user) in a bad light. In my work I try to spread
> opensource gis software, and qsis as Desktop GIS. I meet often user that
> have a basic GIS training (often based on Esri products), and they remain
> very surprised when they realize that "you can not delete a column in QGIS".
> Then I show them "table manager

it is not a QGIS issue, is an OGR one. So every gis software that uses
ogr and that allows to delete columns in a shapefile do it trough a
workaround. In qgis this workaround is called "table manager".



> plugin" and they do not appreciate the need to make a layer duplicate (most
> of these users use windows); 

this is a windows issue.



> About table manager plugin: is there two version of table manager plugin?

no (see above).