I agree that interaction with actions (sorry for the wordplay) should be revised. Keeping the actions as an expandable node inside the identify window makes them harder to find and, I feel, it generates to much indirections. I think that an action tool (something kike the cited "thunder" icons shown in other softwares) would help.
Given the thread object, I relaunch the option to support another kind of actions: one action for multiple layers. AFAIK it's missing, right? layer | action 1 | many (OK) many | many (OK) many | 1 (missing?) giovanni 2012/7/23 haubourg <[email protected]> > Thanks for this guys, > I may be wrong in my analyse, please tell me. > > A bit of context. We are trying to use Qgis for two usages: > 1- classical Desktop GIS for trained users: no worries, actual beahaviour > is way beyond Mapinfo or Arcmap. > 2- simplified viewer for beginners and our decision makers, that obviously > don't have time to get trained (I can't change it). This is more often > served by a web GIS, but we don't have one for now, so we use QGIS and try > to stay simple with one tool (two in fact, we did not get rid of Mapinfo > yet). > > Native run action of identify tool is not immediatly seen by users. Our > users did learn with Mapinfo.. their habits are quite long to change, and > they love that yellow thunder icon (ArcMap uses it also..).. (I try to > change it ;-)) > > - Ok for retrocompatibility, it's too late and I wasn't following dev list > at that time. I understand that. But for future changes, we should at least > warn users and data adminstrators of such changes, or keep compatibility if > possible. Upgreading from 1.7 to 1.8 in a company with a lots of projects > and actions will be more painfull since we have to upgrade all projects of > all users, or explain them how to do it. (80 frequent users .. ). > > > Giuseppe Sucameli wrote > > > > I really do not understand how to run an action (which is defined on > > a layer) on more/all the layers... > > > It's quite simple, if there is only one action, under mouse clic, hotlink > directly run action, if more,opens a lisbox exactly like in Mapinfo. W > > Identify tool requires user to expand "actions" in Identify window. This is > not understood by newcomers. move windows if it floats on data, which > triggers a redraw > > > > Giuseppe Sucameli wrote > > > > > > I still think the Hotlink plugin is quite similar to the identify tool: > > > > 1. Identify tool allows you to see full informations about the > > features, i.e. all the attributes values and not the first one only > > which usually is a non-significant number, > > 2. it open a non-modal window that you can move outside the > > canvas and then click on the map more times without any needs > > to close it, > > 3. you can choose the action to run on only one feature. > > > > It's not clear to me why don't use the identify tool. > > Have I missing something? > > > Seeing attributes is quite reserved to GIS men. For decision makers, we use > QGIS as a frontend to navigate between Geographic context (QGIS) and more > specialised web pages describing objects dedicated to users. For example: > http://adour-garonne.eaufrance.fr/massedeau/FRFR217 > http://adour-garonne.eaufrance.fr/massedeau/FRFR217 or > http://adour-garonne.eaufrance.fr/station/05111620 > http://adour-garonne.eaufrance.fr/station/05111620 . I want for them the > more simple tool possible. If not, they don't use it... > > I would say that identify tool could be satisfying if we find a more > direct > way to allow user to run an action.* Why not suppress action subfolder and > display actions on top of attribute list? * > > Picking a specific tool is not completly satisfying, exploring subfolder > of > identify window isn't either.. The ultimate goal is what google does: only > one default cursor, actions directly on objects.. But we are in descktop > world, so I'm trying to find a compromise with a plugin, using a well known > icon, and letting user click directly on a feature. > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Run-Feature-Action-Behaviour-tp4990012p4990074.html > Sent from the Quantum GIS - Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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