Big +1 too. I always found the current behavior (show all of nothing is selected) slightly counter-intuitive.
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to raise discussion about changing the behaviour of the "show > selected features" mode in the attribute table. > > Over the last couple of weeks I've pushed fixes to both 3.0 and > (shortly) 2.18 to improve the performance of the attribute table when > this mode is selected (Thanks to Faunalia and ENEL for sponsoring > this!). With these changes *only* the selected features are fetched > from providers to show in the attribute table, vs the current > behaviour of fetching *everything* and then filtering out to the > selection. It makes a huge difference for working with large layers. > > Now - there's one last piece of this I'd like to land, but it changes > the behaviour of this mode. Currently if you have the table set to > "show selected features", but there's nothing selected, then ALL > features are shown. > > This kills the benefit of setting the table to show in this mode. If > you accidentally open the table for a large layer with no selection, > it'll force every feature to be fetched again. > > I'd like to change this, so that no selection = nothing shows in the > table. This means that users can safely set the attribute table to > always show in "selected features" mode and be confident that they'll > never hit the situation where every feature is fetched (unless of > course they have selected *every* feature!). > > Does anyone object to this change landing for 3.0 and 2.18? > > 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
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