Hey Zoltan, That pretty much is a thread hijack. Please start a new thread, and maybe open a ticket for the feature request, which is a good one by the way.
- Nathan On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Zoltan Szecsei <zolt...@geograph.co.za>wrote: > On 2014/03/01 12:38, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > > Hey all, > > I would like to get some opinions on Save, Load, Restore Default Style.. > buttons. Personally I find these labeled wrong for what action they take. > Originally these buttons would only save the information from the Style > tab out to a .qml file however now that has evolved to saving other > information that is not related to style, things like;:the edit forms; > included WMS, excluded WMS, etc. To me these are more properties of the > layer and less about the style so the name is misleading. Sharing these > also becomes hard because if I only want the style part it can also > override the label and form settings I have. Hand editing the XML is the > only real option to remove the other settings, which is a pain > > Proposing: Rename from Save, Load Style to Save Properties, Load > Properties. > > Motivation: I would like to add the ability to save just the style > information out to a new file type (maybe something like .qstyle) that > would just contain the renderer-v2 XML block. This would allow sharing of > just the renderer style and would also give me the ability to expand the > Style Manager to allow saving of prebuilt styles e.g I would like to > premake a planning scheme style that all ready contains the right values to > symbols that I could share and load. By Mixing non style information in > the .qml files means this is not as simple as it could be. > > We could also expand the above logic to only save the label section out > to create a label "style" manager. > > Thoughts? > > - Nathan > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing > listQgis-developer@lists.osgeo.orghttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > Hi All, > Please treat this as "thread enhancing" and not "thread hijacking" :-) > > If there are going to be modifications done to styling, please consider > adding a feature whereby the various styles chosen or experimented with, > are auto-saved for that mapsheet (perhaps in your project files). > I find when editing, edge-matching or QAing various mapsheets, I want to > easily switch between styles - I might choose "single symbol" for the map I > am editing, but "rule-based" for the adjoining maps. Rule based choices > would change depending on scenarios, so it does not make sense to save a > rule-based set (I could end up with too many). > So, what I am seeking is the ability to switch between the 5 style > categories, and not lose the ones I may have set up a few minutes ago. If I > close QGIS, and come back to the project later, I would like to see the > last styles I had set up for a mapsheet, still be available when I click > through the style options. > > > Hope I'm making myself clear. > Thanks & regards, > Zoltan > > -- > > =========================================== > Zoltan Szecsei PrGISc [PGP0031] > Geograph (Pty) Ltd. > GIS and Photogrammetric Service > > P.O. Box 7, Muizenberg 7950, South Africa. > > Mobile: +27-83-6004028 > Fax: +27-86-6115323 www.geograph.co.za > =========================================== > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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