On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 09:33:05AM +0000, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Am 11.10.2013 09:22, schrieb Sandro Santilli:
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 09:13:03AM +0000, Duarte Carreira wrote:
> >> The group checkbox, imho, should *not always* switch children on/off. You 
> >> should have a modifier to get this as a secondary behavior, like pressing 
> >> the ctrl key when (un)checking the group checkbox. The primary behavior of 
> >> the group switch should be to make the children invisible or visible, 
> >> regardless of the children's visibility being on or off.
> >>
> >> In the primary behavior when the parent is turned OFF, the children are 
> >> not drawn but retain their checked or uncheck status.
> >> If you use the secondary behavior then unchecking the parent will uncheck 
> >> the children. Same would apply when checking the parent on.
> > 
> > Agreed, sounds like a sensible behavior to me.
> > 
> 
> Yes, a sensible behavior.
> 
> But there is still use-case for the radio-button like behaviour. Imagine
> having a group with a series of orthoimages of different years and you
> quickly want to see each year. In this case, the radio-button behaviour
> would save you one click. So I don't think that this contradicts the
> other proposal listed above here.

Maybe this could be obtained with secondary behavior (SHIFT-click) on layers,
but it sounds like something that easily becomes confusing (conflicting
with radio-on-groups, undefined behavior for unchecking etc.).

--strk;

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