+1 from me too As a project we should really take the opportunity of a 3.0 branch to review this kind of architectural cleanups and focus on a healthy code base more then on new features for the .0 version, in my opinion.
best off course if core dev's take the lead in this Regards, Richard On 31-08-16 08:37, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > I'm a big +1 on that. I will add my notes on a QEP if one is opened > > (Hopefully I can be a bit more active in the project after a bit of a break) > > - Nathan > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Neumann, Andreas <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi all, Hi Nyall, Matthias and Denis, > > After some discussion with Nyall we stumbled again over the > inconvenience that widgets in QGIS mix data (core) and GUI part. > This effects many places in QGIS where you want to address the > display value of a widget instead of the raw value: QGIS Server > (e.g. GetFeatureInfo Requests), Print Composer, Labels, Save to > Spreadsheet with human readable values, and many more. > > So before people are introducing more and more widgets (which is > nice) I would suggest to first improve our widget infrastructure for > QGIS 3.0 to decouple the Core/data part from the GUI part, which > would allow code to access all widget configuration and > properties without having to deal with the GUI part of the widget. > Nyall mentioned that the symbology rendering separates this nicely, > but the attribute widgets do not. > > Nyall suggested to do a QEP for that to discuss the implications and > how this can be cleanly designed. > > Matthias - since you are "the widget guy" - do you want to take a > lead on this QEP? Or should I ask Nyall? > > Thanks, > > Andreas > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > <http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer> > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > <http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
