Hi Wayne,

Your reasoning makes sense. I believe these exact semantics were 
implemented because that is the way MapServer does its legend graphic 
generation.

I would not be against including labels by default. It might be good to 
see what some of the other folks on this list think.

-Justin

Wayne Fang wrote:
> I was looking into the Legend feature and came across some behaviour 
> that strikes me as odd.  According to the GetLegendGraphic Improvements 
> document 
> (http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/GetLegendGraphic+Improvements) in 
> section 5:
> 
>     * If there's just one Rule for a legend, no label is supplied
>     * If there is more than one Rule for a legend, labels are supplied
> 
> I'm not clear what the use case is for a legend with a single item with 
> no label attached to it; it seems to defeat the purpose of a legend.  
> There's a forceLabels option to force labels on or off, but I would 
> think the following behaviour is more intuitive:
> 
>     * Draw labels by default.
>     * If forceLabels is set to 'on', then draw labels.
>     * If forceLabels is set to 'off', then don't draw labels.
> 
> Can somebody explain the reasoning behind this to me?  If not, I'd like 
> to change it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Wayne
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