By the way : is there some policy about backwards compatibility ? Thanks !
2013/2/20 Olivier Dalang <[email protected]>: > Hi ! > > Those change appear because some properties have been added and some > removed to make the UI and the code more consistent (removing > duplicate border color settings for Shape item, for instance). > Upon opening an old project, the added properties will be set to > default, while the duplicate one will take the old unused property. > > I'd say there's no easy way to avoid such side-effects (without coding > some dirty compatibility code). One way to handle such changes would > be to implement a kind of "old version file converter" to allow > backwards compatibility without making the code too complex. > > But I'm not sure that if it's worth it. A general rule in software > usage is to keep the same version of the software throughout a > project, an to use new versions only when starting new projects. > > > However, it is possible to discuss if which composer items should have > a background and/or frame by default. (in your case, this could change > whether composer items should have a background by default) > > For now, I think all the composer items have a white background and no > frame by default, excepted the ComposerShape which has also a frame. > > > Olivier > > > > 2013/2/20 Andreas Neumann <[email protected]>: >> Hi, >> >> With the recent modifications in print composer, while I agree that the UI >> has much improved, there are unfortunately also some side-effects. Here are >> two problems I have detected: >> >> * legend boxes which had a white background now have a transparent >> background >> * Basic shapes (like rects, ellipses, triangles) that had a black border now >> have either no border or a white border >> >> For organizations like us, with a lot of QGIS projects with a lot of >> different layouts, this is quite annoying if we have to manually change each >> of the projects. >> >> But I am also aware that we are using master / unstable and that there are >> modifications. I can live with such changes but I assume that other users >> will have similar problems if backwards compatibility breaks. >> >> Just to let you know - thanks for the improvements in the UI! >> >> Andreas >> >> -- >> -- >> Andreas Neumann >> Böschacherstrasse 10A >> 8624 Grüt (Gossau ZH) >> Switzerland >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
