Smashing!

ArcCatalog also collapses down all the constituent parts and shows one file in 
the tree instead of all parts of the shapefile or tab file, for example.  
However, it also only shows files it can open.   The info button in Browser 
lists all files in the folder regardless of whether QGIS can open them or not.  
I guess we need to think about what the user wants to do with the info they can 
see in the panel.

Ross

From: Nathan Woodrow [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 05 July 2017 09:29
To: McDonaldR; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [QGIS-Developer] dataset icons in Browser tree


Yep I'm down for that, would look pretty nice if we can I think. Bit like what 
VS Code, pycharm etc do for different file types.

Would be still handy to see if it's line, point, etc so just need to consider 
that.

On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, 6:26 PM McDonaldR 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi List,

This might be on the hit list already.  Is it possible to have different icons 
for different file types within the QGIS Browser?  I know the standalone 
Browser is being discontinued but the panel will still be available in the core 
QGIS.  Different icons would be very useful.

In the QGIS Browser (app and panel) file system based datasets are listed in 
alphabetical order and each file has either a small raster icon if it is an 
image format or a small polygon icon if it is not.  For database layers they 
have a small point, line or polygon icon.

In my second choice GIS (well known!) there is also a browser-like application 
but it shows the files and datasets with different icons depending on file and 
data type.  You can see the icons in the screenshots on this page - 
http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/manage-data/using-arccatalog/a-quick-tour-of-arccatalog.htm

Ross

Ross McDonald | GIS Data Coordinator | Angus Council, People, IT | Angus House, 
Orchardbank Business Park, Sylvie Way, Forfar DD8 1AT | t: 01307 476419


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