Hi Olivier,
Thank you for your reply. For me its fine. I had to change other stuff
in my layouts anyway (new email address, etc.). I am almost through all
the changes.
My projects have to stay on the current version all the time. They
should live for several years and improve gradually - along with
improvements in QGIS. It is not an option to have older QGIS versions
around for older projects. But that's our problem.
So basic shapes (rects, ellipses, triangles) should have a black stroke
by default - a stroke-width of 0.2 mm, in my opinion. All other elements
probably without a frame and background by default. Does this make
sense?
Thanks,
Andreas
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:51:16 +0100, Olivier Dalang wrote:
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
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