Following on from a discussion in March last year (http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2013-March/025064.html), I'd like to re-raise the idea of swapping the behavior of composer guides lines from the current approach (clicking and dragging on the horizontal ruler to create a vertical guide) to the opposite approach (clicking and dragging down the horizontal ruler to create a horizontal guide).
My rationale is: - The rulers have changed appearance in 2.2, so this is a good time to change this behavior if we do decide to do so. It's better to address this now while things already look different to users then in a future release. - The alternative behavior is much more standard. A quick test shows me that Illustrator, Inkscape, Publisher, Scribus, Gimp, Photoshop and Indesign all use the drag a horizontal ruler to create a horizontal guide approach. These are all industry-standard applications, and ones which many cartographers/GIS users would be familiar with. What's everyone's thoughts regarding this? Nyall _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
