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On 17/06/2020 9:05, Richard
Duivenvoorde wrote:
On 6/17/20 12:28 AM, Nyall Dawson wrote:On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 08:22, Nyall Dawson <nyall.daw...@gmail.com> wrote:On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 05:28, Micha Silver <tsvi...@gmail.com> wrote:Even though I've been using QGIS for many years, I'm still confused by the concept of templates. When I create a basic project (currently using 3.10 on Linux) and choose "Save to..." and select "templates", a *.qgz file is indeed created in my templates directory. When I restart QGIS and select "New from template" that template project is opened. But then, any further changes are saved back to the template unless I explicitly do "Save as...". I would expect that "New from template" should open a *new* project with all the elements from the template, but not allowing to alter the original template.This definitely sounds like a bug, and a serious one at that! I'll see if I can resolve for 3.14...Actually, I can't reproduce either issue on 3.14I am pretty sure I have the same feeling as Micha, that something sometimes is going wrong. I end up with a template (or default project??) which holds layers from an earlier project.But I try to reproduce now and I can't. Only thing I see is that if I use the 'create new project from default project' from settings/options/general (after setting the current project as default), I see a 'project_default' in my 'Project/Open Recent' list... So it maybe that I sometimes open that one... and as it is not a template, it just opens as the default project and I save stuff in that one...
I think that Richard explained better than me. But I'll give another try, hoping not to confuse more.
In other GIS software, or office programs, when you open a new
document/project based on a template you get a *new* document.
When you then do "Save..." the usual "File save" dialog opens to
save to a new file. In the case of QGIS, when you use the "New
from template..." option, it seems that you are actually opening
the template project. Then, if you click "Save" (before "Save
as...") any changes get saved back to the template. That's not
what I would expect. Starting a project with "New from template"
should load all the layers and configurations from the template
project into a new "Untitled Project". Then "Save" would allow to
choose the target directory and project file name.
So maybe the concepts 'default project' and 'template' mix up? There is also the 'Open project on launch'/specific project which you can set... I understand all are more or less different, but maybe that is too much concepts for the average Joe like me? What is a 'default' project: is it a 'give me always those reference layers-TEMPLATE or is it a template I always work on (which you then (partly) can set with 'Open project on Launch' What about: - remove the 'set current project as default' stuff from the settings - our old 'new project' icon (the white sheet) get's that little drop down sign next to it, and: - clicking the new project shows a dropdown with the templates
Sounds good to me. Providing that you actually get a new "Untitled project" with the template configurations and layers.
Thanks, Micha
Any interaction guru's here? Regards, Richard Duivenvoorde -- Micha Silver Ben Gurion Univ. Sde Boker, Remote Sensing Lab cell: +972-523-665918 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1128-1325 |
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