+1 for a "no symbol" renderer. I also had a use case when styling OSM data. I guess it should be either the first or the last option on the renderer list. Probably the last.
Best wishes, Anita On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Alexandre Neto <[email protected]> wrote: > I think "No symbol" renderer is more straight forward option. > > Alexandre Neto > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Anita Graser <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Forwarded from the developer mailing list: What's the preferred UX >> solution for functionality to suppress symbols when only labels are >> needed? >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> >> Date: Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 2:38 PM >> Subject: [Qgis-developer] "No symbol" renderer... thoughts? >> To: qgis-developer <[email protected]> >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> I find I'm often adding layers to a map solely for labelling, and >> having to set the symbology for these layers to a 100% transparent >> symbol so that the features themselves aren't shown. >> >> This seems rather hacky and inefficient, since QGIS is still rendering >> these feature, they just aren't being shown. Consequently, I'd like to >> add a better method for having layers with no visible features. >> >> As far as I can see, there's three possible options for this: >> - Add a "no symbols" renderer. >> - Allow the first symbol layer to be removed, so that a symbol can >> have no layers >> - Add "no fill"/"no line"/"no marker" symbol layers >> >> What would be the preferred solution, from a design and UX view? I'm >> leaning toward the "no symbols" renderer option myself, but thought >> I'd seek feedback before digging into this. >> >> Nyall >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> _______________________________________________ >> QGIS-UX mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-ux > > _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
