ok - I am not strongly against it. It really depends on the map scale
and projections one is working at. I only use one projection and very
large scales (street or community level). I usually print north arrow
and scalebar on the print layout. On the main QGIS screen they usually
get in my way. But I can always override the setting - so not a problem.
Andreas
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:20:17 +0200, MORREALE Jean Roc wrote:
In my experience, new users are quite fond of having them :
- the north, so then they realize that their data isn't projected
correctly
- the graphic scale, because they can't figure a number but can
relate to a line (and use their thumb to compare (not a joke))
Le 16/04/2012 11:11, Andreas Neumann a écrit :
Hi,
I agree with all of your ideas, except for adding the north icon and
the
scalebar by default. The map always points north in QGIS, so why the
arrow? Also, the map scale is already in the status bar, so why the
double information?
All other suggestions make sense to me.
I would also add the following default settings:
Tab Map Tools:
- mode: Top down, stop at first hit
- checkbox enabled for "open object form if only a single result
..."
Andreas
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:05:01 +0200, MORREALE Jean Roc wrote:
Hi,
Would it be possible to change the default parameters of QGIS ? For
now a new user gets all the tool bars on the first launch and most
of
the tools are not visible. Some such as advanced digitizing, grass,
overview should be off by default. The others should be spread out,
for example the navigation bar could be set on one side of the
application.
Somme other changes could be :
- to activate the north icon and the scale bar for the canevas
- to add a default 10 pixel radius for snapping tolerance and
vertex edit
- activate "show makers only for selected features"
- switch to "zoom to mouse cursor" to have the same behavior than
most of the web-mapping tools
These changes would make the software less frightening, less
cluttered for newcomers.
Regards,
MORREALE Jean-Roc
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