Hi all, Just wanted to raise discussion about a concern I have with the new "duplicate feature" / "duplicate feature and redigitize" actions which have been added for 3.0.
While I like the functionality, I believe we should re-think the UX of how it is exposed in the QGIS interface. Currently, it's implemented as a "feature action", so appears in numerous places throughout the QGIS UI, including: - the actions drop down submenu on the toolbar - within the right click menu for the "identify tool" - under the "actions" heading in the identify results dock for a feature - in a menu bar at the top of the form shown after adding a new feature - as an entry within the right click menu in the attribute table So my initial concern is that exposing it in all these places is overkill and far too prominent for this operation. But my deeper concern is that these actions skip the edit buffer and directly alter layers in place, even when those layers are not made editable (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/17852). So now we've got a menu item exposed in all these places which causes permanent changes to a layer, including in places which are not associated with editing at all (e.g. the identify tool right click menu). I'm also unsure what the actions would do in some contexts - e.g. if I create a new feature and then select "duplicate feature" in the popup form *before* this feature has even be finalized, what does it mean? I'd very much like to see this re-thought before our final release, and exposed in a more standard way via the advanced digitizing toolbar. Thoughts? Nyall _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer