On 16 January 2017 at 10:31, Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16 January 2017 at 10:27, Tim Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> >> On 16 Jan 2017, at 7:11 AM, Nathan Woodrow <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> What about a cross out though the icon, to show not enabled? >> >> >> When I was originally working on on the fly projection support a long time >> ago I added that icon so you could en/disable OTF in case OTF had some side >> effects. Many years have passed and I would guess there isn't much reason to >> ever have OTF disabled. Does anyone still have a use case for this? If not, >> why don't we just make it permanently enabled? And then use the project >> properties icon in greyscale down in the status bar (which I still find >> pretty convenient to have there). > > Big +1, for these reasons: > > - OTF off results in confusing and often misleading measurements - see > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/3992 > - There's no performance penalty associated with OTF when no > transformation is required - everything is short cut so no projection > is done > - If user's really want to display a layer in a different CRS to what > the layer has, they should just manually select a new CRS for that > layer in layer properties.
Implemented in https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/4198 Nyall _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
