Hi, Thanks Anita for this work. I wasn't aware of your tool. Any reason to not make it available in the Plugins repo? It might get more audience, unless I overestimate our repo... Btw: I like the title of the blog post. :-)
So other than Anita's plugin, there's currently no ongoing work to unify the tools. >From a doc writer's perspective, it's ok; we'll see how we structure the chapter. >From a user's one, would be nice to have things moved in the way of a unified tool in the next releases. Landing in 3.0 could even sound like a big change between 2.x series and 3.0. Maybe, taking Anita's work as a first step and .... Regards, Harrissou 2017-04-03 6:05 GMT+02:00 Stéphane Henriod <[email protected]>: > Hi all > > I must say that Anita's hack seems quite handy and straight forward from a > user's perspective. Would it be heavy to "just" integrate into the Master > QGIS? I would be happy to help with testing. More, I unfortunately cannot > do :-) > > Cheers > > Stéphane > > > > Le lundi 3 avril 2017, Tim Sutton <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> Hi Anita >> >> On 02 Apr 2017, at 10:21 PM, Anita Graser <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Tim Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Harrisou >>> >>> On 02 Apr 2017, at 4:57 PM, DelazJ <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi devs, >>> >>> In the documentation team, we plan to rewrite the "Supported data >>> formats" chapter (http://docs.qgis.org/2.14/en/ >>> docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/supported_data.html) which >>> actually explores many of the different ways to add (vector) layers to >>> QGIS. It's full of redundant information, not easy to maintain and doesn't >>> expose tools like the browser panel. Discussion at >>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/issues/1088 >>> <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/issues/1088.> if you want >>> to help. >>> Before we engage any time on this restructuring and to avoid doing >>> things twice and because I read some related assertions in the past, I'd >>> like to ask if there's any plan to merge some of these tools for 3.0... And >>> if ever, what's the state of the work ? >>> >>> >>> This has been discussed a number of times, and Nathan made some initial >>> mockups once. But as far as I know, nobody is actively working on this so I >>> don't know if anything will land in 3.0. >>> >> >> I've been working with my "unified add layer button" modification for a >> few months now: https://anitagraser.com/2016/07/20/one-add-button-to-ru >> le-them-all/ >> >> Wouldn't want to go back. I still sometimes use the Add PostGIS layer >> dialog from the menus though. >> >> >> Ah thanks I forgot about your post Anita! >> >> Regards >> >> Tim >> >> >> Best wishes, >> Anita >> >> >> — >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *Tim Sutton* >> >> *Co-founder:* Kartoza >> *Project chair:* QGIS.org >> >> Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source: >> >> Desktop GIS programming services >> Geospatial web development >> GIS Training >> Consulting Services >> >> *Skype*: timlinux >> *IRC:* timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net >> >> Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial >> >> > > -- > > “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make > you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable." -- > Clifton Fadiman > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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