I thought there also was the target or wish making QGIS able to read/interpret the old labels (e.g. when opening a 1.8 qgs project file). My experiences are that this does not work. (Even using the old label dialog in qgis-master does not work properly) Therefore IMHO the old labeling is useless.
Marco Am 09.06.2013 19:28, schrieb Tim Sutton: > Hi > > I also think we should hide the old labelling dialog. I think Larry > was working on migration logic that would allow old labels to be > converted to new. I cant remember if he kept this back for 2.1 though. > Assuming its not ready, we should follow Nathan's suggestion of hiding > the old labels tab unless the project file indicates it is needed. > > PS optimisation wise couldnt we just have a 'quick' mode that draws a > maximum of n labels pre render? > > Regards > > Tim > > On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Andreas Neumann <[email protected]> wrote: >> Marco Hugentobler is currently working on optimizing the labeling of >> area features. Because it is feature-freeze I don't know if this will be >> added to 2.0 or delayed for 2.1 - maybe the PSC can make a decision >> about this. >> >> Personally I would recommend to get rid of the old labeling now. >> >> Andreas >> >> Am 09.06.2013 12:47, schrieb Borys Jurgiel: >>> The only thing I *REALLY* miss in the new labelling is an optional FAST >>> method >>> to put labels just in poligon centroids with ommiting any expensive >>> collision >>> algorithms. When just browsing data the speed is priority, I don't need >>> beautiful map, I need to FAST put ANY labels to see what is in polygons. >>> >>> Unless it's not available in the new labelling, we make a regression, >>> removing >>> one of the most fundamental features. Please correct me if I'm missed some >>> PAL >>> option that I can disable to achieve a significant boost. >>> >>> >>> Dnia niedziela, 9 czerwca 2013 o 12:13:01 MORREALE Jean Roc napisał(a): >>>> What is the status ? Are we going to keep a deprecated label tab for the >>>> next 3 years ? >>>> >>>> Le 26/05/2013 14:37, Nathan Woodrow a écrit : >>>>> Can we finally remove the old label UI from the layer properties dialog? >>>>> >>>>> Could we remove it by default and just enable it for old project that >>>>> >>>>> have old labels defined. >>>>> >>>>> - Nathan >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
