Hi
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Nyall Dawson <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been playing with the newly added "min-max map unit scale" > feature. While this is a great feature to have, I think in it's > current form it's rather confusing for users. > > Currently, when clicking the little settings icon next to a size in > map units, a dialog with "maximum scale" and "minimum scale" appears. > It's not immediately obvious as to what these settings actually do - > do they prevent the style showing outside these scale ranges? does the > symbol size reset to some default value outside these ranges? or is > the size clamped to the size it would take at these max/min scale > ranges? It took a bit of experimenting for me to work out that this > last behavior is what occurs. > > I think it would make a lot more sense if these max/min sizes were > instead given in "mm", and the labels renamed to "Maximum size" / > "Minimum size". To me this is much more intuitive - it would be > immediately obvious that the size is set in map units, but limited so > that it never become larger or smaller than these set size limits. > +1 - I think this approach will make it much more intuitive. Regards Tim > > This would take this feature from being an advanced feature which > takes a lot of experimenting to tweak correctly to something I'd use > on a regular basis! > > What's everyone else's thoughts on this? > > Nyall > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member ============================================== Please do not email me off-list with technical support questions. Using the lists will gain more exposure for your issues and the knowledge surrounding your issue will be shared with all. Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net ==============================================
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