[Qgis-developer] again on encoding problems

2012-10-24 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hi all. Here in the Far East the encoding is a serious problem hampering the use of QGIS. I was just pointed out a problem with the GRASS plugin on Win: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4547 and the solution the use: http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Qgis1-5-Grass-tt3730164.html#a3730165 basically

Re: [Qgis-developer] matplotlib in mac

2012-10-24 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 24/10/2012 13:33, Noli Sicad ha scritto: I think Matplotib package is not install in by default in any other system. You have to download and install it by yourself. In Win standalone it is installed. Anyway, you can download in Willam's site (below) and install it very easily in Mac OS X.

Re: [Qgis-developer] User profiles

2012-10-24 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 24/10/2012 15:59, Martin Dobias ha scritto: The browser tree dock widget is a good thing, but it cannot replace the add layer dialog completely as it is missing some power when it comes to provider-specific options - select ID of a postgis view, select style of a WMS layer or open a CSV

[Qgis-developer] setPkgDataPath issue

2012-10-24 Thread Sandro Santilli
Larry, I commented out the setPkgDataPath line because with that load of GdalTools plugin out of output/python/plugin path fails with this message: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/src/qgis/Quantum-GIS/b/output/python/qgis/utils.py, line 188, in startPlugin

Re: [Qgis-developer] User profiles

2012-10-24 Thread haubourg
Hi, Browser needs at least 3 improvements to get reed of an extra button: 1- ability to reorder folders and files by name or date. If sometimes have seen mixed up folders in browser, without knowing why... 2- ability to connect (mount) a shortcut to a location like in Arcmap. This is because

Re: [Qgis-developer] setPkgDataPath issue

2012-10-24 Thread Larry Shaffer
Hi strk, On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Sandro Santilli s...@keybit.net wrote: Larry, I commented out the setPkgDataPath line because with that load of GdalTools plugin out of output/python/plugin path fails with this message: Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: [Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

2012-10-24 Thread Radim Blazek
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Pirmin Kalberer pi...@sourcepole.com wrote: Hi Martin, Am Montag, 22. Oktober 2012, 21.17:20 schrieb Martin Dobias: recently I have been brewing some backwards incompatible API changes that will 1) enable introduction of threading, 2) simplify API for

Re: [Qgis-developer] setPkgDataPath issue

2012-10-24 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 02:14:46AM -0600, Larry Shaffer wrote: Hi strk, On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Sandro Santilli s...@keybit.net wrote: Larry, I commented out the setPkgDataPath line because with that load of GdalTools plugin out of output/python/plugin path fails with this

Re: [Qgis-developer] setPkgDataPath issue

2012-10-24 Thread Sandro Santilli
Also, Larry, not everyone is on IRC, could you explain here again why setPkgDataPath is needed ? --strk; On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:28:54AM +0200, Sandro Santilli wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 02:14:46AM -0600, Larry Shaffer wrote: Hi strk, On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Sandro

Re: [Qgis-developer] User profiles

2012-10-24 Thread Anita Graser
2- ability to connect (mount) a shortcut to a location like in Arcmap. is available through favorites. In browser, we cannot choose the encoding of e.g. Shapefiles. At least when opened directly from Zip, German Umlaute are always messed up. Best wishes, Anita On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:58

Re: [Qgis-developer] User profiles

2012-10-24 Thread Nathan Woodrow
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: wouldn't it be better to add this to the browser, instead of having (one more) double solution? While it sounds like a good idea I think the browser falls short on a few usability issues that I think having a separate

Re: [Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

2012-10-24 Thread Alexander Bruy
2012/10/24 Radim Blazek radim.bla...@gmail.com: Is there the 2.0 changes list written on flip chart on HF somewhere on wiki? If not, I'll start one. Is there a photo? As I can see from this photo [0] threading included to 2.0 roadmap but marked as non-blocker [0]

Re: [Qgis-developer] again on encoding problems

2012-10-24 Thread Maris Nartiss
Hello Paolo, I haven't seen how QGIS GRASS plug in is built, still my 0.02 from GRASS side. Some time a go I investigated encoding problems in native GRASS on Windows (WinGRASS) and my conclusion was - it is not possible to fix it for GRASS 6 due to character encoding handling in Windows. Reason

Re: [Qgis-developer] User profiles

2012-10-24 Thread haubourg
Sorry! didn't see that.. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/User-profiles-tp5010487p5010765.html Sent from the Quantum GIS - Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Qgis-developer mailing list

Re: [Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

2012-10-24 Thread Werner Macho
Hi! Probably I missed something in Essen but to my knowledge it was always clear that 2.0 will have _a lot of API Changes_ .. And I missed them already. So now someone (Martin) is starting to bring us to a point where a 2.0 really earns its big number change. I am really looking forward to have

Re: [Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

2012-10-24 Thread Nathan Woodrow
There is also something else to remember here. These changes that Martin is proposing to merge are not the threading changes, it is the API to allow threading to be added later. Even without threading being added the API update is worth it. Having a cleaner API is always a good thing. Cleaner

Re: [Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

2012-10-24 Thread Micha Silver
On 23/10/2012 09:28, Sandro Santilli wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 09:35:05PM +0200, Werner Macho wrote: Hi! Short answer from me +1 and go ahead .. As I remember we all knew that on the way to 2.0 there will be some API Changes - but as long as

Re: [Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

2012-10-24 Thread haubourg
Hi All, As Martin asked, could we know more about 2.0 roadmap planning and feature list? My concern is that we deployed QGIS in prod for 300 users, but we still miss some bugfixes and features to definitly switch. As long as I maintain two GIS solutions, I have double work, and I can't dedicate

Re: [Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

2012-10-24 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Pirmin and others, Tim should correct me - but as far as I remember we said that threading support is one of the major things we want to see in QGIS 2.0 (along with raster redesign, atlas printing and others). But none of us were sure in what timeframe Martin can work on it and when it

Re: [Qgis-developer] matplotlib in mac

2012-10-24 Thread William Kyngesburye
On Oct 24, 2012, at 2:23 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Il 24/10/2012 13:33, Noli Sicad ha scritto: I think Matplotib package is not install in by default in any other system. You have to download and install it by yourself. In Win standalone it is installed. Anyway, you can download in

Re: [Qgis-developer] User profiles

2012-10-24 Thread G. Allegri
My 2 cents. I agree with all of you about the need to remove some default toolbars. Following the proposal of Werner, what about having a View menu, where the user can choose which toolbars activate and not? And as an improvement to this, one could provide a system to Add custom buttons to the

Re: [Qgis-developer] User profiles

2012-10-24 Thread Alexander Bruy
2012/10/24 Alexander Bruy alexander.b...@gmail.com: 2012/10/24 G. Allegri gioha...@gmail.com: My 2 cents. I agree with all of you about the need to remove some default toolbars. Following the proposal of Werner, what about having a View menu, where the user can choose which toolbars activate

Re: [Qgis-developer] User profiles

2012-10-24 Thread Werner Macho
I knew that toolbars are already able to be switched on and off.. My intention was to create those custom toolbars because currently you can switch whole bars on and off.. But what if I use only one tool from a huge bar?.. So I tend to keep the default small.. And create my own toolbar.. Regards

Re: [Qgis-developer] User profiles

2012-10-24 Thread G. Allegri
Yes, I meant custom toolboars and single custom buttons... 2012/10/24 Werner Macho werner.ma...@gmail.com I knew that toolbars are already able to be switched on and off.. My intention was to create those custom toolbars because currently you can switch whole bars on and off.. But what if I

[Qgis-developer] GIT authentication problem on qgis.org

2012-10-24 Thread Radim Blazek
I cannot get GIT on qgis.org working. I added my public key in http://hub.qgis.org/my/public_keys, I am developer in http://hub.qgis.org/projects/valuetool but I am always asked for password: git clone gito...@qgis.org:valuetool.git valuetool Cloning into valuetool... gito...@qgis.org's password:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Invert color ramp not working?

2012-10-24 Thread Radim Blazek
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Hi all. In a recent master, raster properties, if I check the flag invert color ramp, I do not get the expected result, but the old ugly red-blue ramp: Invert color was missing in pseudocolor renderer, fixed. The

Re: [Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

2012-10-24 Thread Marco Hugentobler
Hi defs Yes, the decision was that multithreading branch should be in 2.0. Personally, I'm in favor of merging it as soon as possible (to give the dev team enough time to get used to the new classes and to handle possible side effects). Martin, is your planned merge already the full

Re: [Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

2012-10-24 Thread Pirmin Kalberer
Hi Martin, Andreas and others, Am Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2012, 16.13:34 schrieb Andreas Neumann: Tim should correct me - but as far as I remember we said that threading support is one of the major things we want to see in QGIS 2.0 (along with raster redesign, atlas printing and others).

Re: [Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

2012-10-24 Thread Martin Dobias
Hi Pirmin On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Pirmin Kalberer pi...@sourcepole.com wrote: We already have some API breaks. I've spent quite some time in Essen to get a full list of it: http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/API_changes_for_version_20#Full-diff My estimation is, that about 1% of

Re: [Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

2012-10-24 Thread Martin Dobias
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Marco Hugentobler marco.hugentob...@sourcepole.ch wrote: Hi defs Yes, the decision was that multithreading branch should be in 2.0. Personally, I'm in favor of merging it as soon as possible (to give the dev team enough time to get used to the new classes and

Re: [Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

2012-10-24 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 25/10/2012 05:39, Pirmin Kalberer ha scritto: We did decide filling the missing gaps to fully replace old symbology and old labelling (Paolo: Kickstarter pledge on the way?) and polishing the many new features already integrated. Sorry, no progress on this. I've asked for some feedback and

Re: [Qgis-developer] matplotlib in mac

2012-10-24 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 24/10/2012 23:14, William Kyngesburye ha scritto: Well, my own reasoning is mostly that I don't like lots of duplication, it just bloats packages for a small convenience. QGIS package is 75MiB, Matplotlib is 53MiB. I don't oh! I could not imagine - python-matplotlib installed size on

Re: [Qgis-developer] Invert color ramp not working?

2012-10-24 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 25/10/2012 02:52, Radim Blazek ha scritto: You are probably expecting the classification to be done in reverse order? Yes. I think that invert color has little/no sense for pseudocolor and multiband color as it is implemented in master or/and was in 1.8. For pseudo color it should be moved

Re: [Qgis-developer] User profiles

2012-10-24 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 24/10/2012 09:46, pcr...@pcreso.com ha scritto: So I think the idea of selectable profiles to enable a simple default add (unhide) capability when you are ready for it is a good idea. Going beyond the existing selectable menus, to a list of user levels, rather than explicit

Re: [Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

2012-10-24 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
In the region I'm working in (Southeast Asia), QuantumGIS' adoption rate is quickly rising, in big part due to fact that ArcGIS doesn't properly support UTF-8. Keeping these new adopters passionate about QGIS - as well as increasing user base - with an healthy release cycle is IMO really

Re: [Qgis-developer] User profiles

2012-10-24 Thread Alister Hood
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:56:47 +0700 From: Marco Bernasocchi ma...@bernawebdesign.ch To: qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] User profiles Message-ID: 508758ef.4030...@bernawebdesign.ch Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1   On 10/24/2012 09:53 AM, Alister

Re: [Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

2012-10-24 Thread Alister Hood
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:48:30 +0900 From: Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it To: qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes Message-ID: 5088703e.3070...@faunalia.it Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Il 25/10/2012 05:39,

Re: [Qgis-developer] User profiles

2012-10-24 Thread pcreso
Hi Alistair, My QGIS setup has 4 toobars across the top of the screen.  If I introduce someone to that, who is not familiar with GIS, their eyes glaze over... one lost potential user. Multiplied several times. Is QGIS intended to be used by everyone, from novices to GIS experts? It does not do

Re: [Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

2012-10-24 Thread Marco Hugentobler
Hi I understand Paolos and Pirmins concerns. Software like kde4 or gvsig had or still have a long time of problems with major new versions. On the other hand, I don't want to postpone the threading changes again and again. Would it be an option to branch a 1.9 from current master just before