Re: [Qgis-developer] Removing SEXTANTE context help

2012-11-14 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 14/11/2012 00:56, Tim Sutton ha scritto: However I doubt this will happen in 2.0but when it does you will be in a good position already since you can just point to your sphinx docs Agreed, an important improvement IMHO. If anybody had time to speed this up, please do it. I can give

Re: [Qgis-developer] Webpage

2012-11-14 Thread Vincent Picavet
Hi, Speaking of website improvement, I've just dropped in a proposal for a refined - and more importantly _vector-based_ - QGIS logo here: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/6688 I've tried to stick to the original logo as much as possible as clearly many people are emotionally attached to the

Re: [Qgis-developer] Webpage

2012-11-14 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I had plans on running a logo contest before we roll out 2.0. Maybe now is a good time. I have had a few people who have said they will put in some money to aid in that kind of project. I don't think we need a whole new logo, but a revamp would be good IMO. - Nathan On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at

Re: [Qgis-developer] Webpage

2012-11-14 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Vincent, Re modern-looking and professional, the above proposal tries to improve the situation there. I believe it does so successfully, but then again it's my subjective opinion :) I think the not professional might be in big part due to the absence of high resolution versions of the logo to be

Re: [Qgis-developer] adding point/multipoint to the QgsRubberBand drawing capabilities?

2012-11-14 Thread Matthias Kuhn
On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 21:27 +0100, G. Allegri wrote: Let me clarify my request a bit more. I know QgsRubberBand can manage points and paint them as square graphics. What I mean is painting circles (drawEllipse). I think it's reasonable to introduce such a thing. QgsRubberBand is used for

[Qgis-developer] Remaining work to get rid of old labeling?

2012-11-14 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Larry, Hi all, At the Essen developer meeting we discussed that we want to get rid of the double versions (labeling, symbology, diagrams - more?) The new diagram are now in good shape thanks to the work of Matthias Kuhn and Marco Hugentobler. I now that Larry did a tremendous amount of work

Re: [Qgis-developer] Remaining work to get rid of old labeling?

2012-11-14 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hi Andreas. Il 14/11/2012 10:28, Andreas Neumann ha scritto: Question to Larry and the PSC? What is the status of this work? Was there any agreement so far between the PSC and Larry to fund his work? I'm not aware of any progress or decision on this. I think we should have an update on all the

Re: [Qgis-developer] Webpage

2012-11-14 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi My 2c - I really like Mathieu's evolutionary proposal. At the same time running a contest to see what other ideas we can shake out of the trees seems like a good idea (just be sure to include Mathieu's proposal too!). Now would definately be a good time to run such a contest. Regards Tim

[Qgis-developer] Logo redesign - was: Re: Webpage

2012-11-14 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi all, There is a vector version of the current logo in our github repository: https://raw.github.com/qgis/Quantum-GIS/master/images/icons/qgis_icon.svg It is just not very well-known. And probably not widely used. Btw: it sucks that github does not know about the SVG mime-type. How long is

Re: [Qgis-developer] Webpage

2012-11-14 Thread Andreas Neumann
I agree that Mathieus' proposal is an improvement and doesn't radically change things (keeps brand recognigion). It is better legible than the previous version of the logo. But the more important thing is that people should start using SVG icons instead of PNG icons in their toolbars, GUI, etc. -

Re: [Qgis-developer] Webpage

2012-11-14 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.netwrote: I agree that Mathieus' proposal is an improvement and doesn't radically change things (keeps brand recognigion). It is better legible than the previous version of the logo. But the more important thing is that

Re: [Qgis-developer] Multicolumn legends in print composer

2012-11-14 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
I can confirm both issues raised by Andreas. Beyond that, very useful feature. On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.netwrote: Hi, Thanks to Radim we now have multi-column legends in print composer. This was one of my long-time feature requests - but it never got

Re: [Qgis-developer] Multicolumn legends in print composer

2012-11-14 Thread haubourg
Hi all, really nice again Radim ! (I'm glad we found some euros for it ;-)) I confirm first issue with rectangle. I didn't encounter slow down or crashes with osgeo4w installer in WIN XP. revision f210668. I will keep on testing. Régis -- View this message in context:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Multicolumn legends in print composer

2012-11-14 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 14/11/2012 11:11, Andreas Neumann ha scritto: Thanks Radim for your work! To be fair, we should also thank Regis and the Agence de l'eau Adour Garonne for funding this work. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi

Re: [Qgis-developer] Multicolumn legends in print composer

2012-11-14 Thread Andreas Neumann
Am 14.11.2012 11:57, schrieb Paolo Cavallini: Il 14/11/2012 11:11, Andreas Neumann ha scritto: Thanks Radim for your work! To be fair, we should also thank Regis and the Agence de l'eau Adour Garonne for funding this work. All the best. Sure - did not know who was funding this work.

Re: [Qgis-developer] adding point/multipoint to the QgsRubberBand drawing capabilities?

2012-11-14 Thread G. Allegri
I'll try to implement it as soon as I find a slot of time. I don't guarantee it because my C++ programming skills are not so high... giovanni 2012/11/14 Matthias Kuhn matthias.k...@gmx.ch On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 21:27 +0100, G. Allegri wrote: Let me clarify my request a bit more. I know

Re: [Qgis-developer] adding point/multipoint to the QgsRubberBand drawing capabilities?

2012-11-14 Thread Matthias Kuhn
On the other hand, there is already QgsVertexMarker, which offers similar possibilities. On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 13:01 +0100, Matthias Kuhn wrote: Already done: https://github.com/matthias-kuhn/Quantum-GIS/tree/rubberband-point Please have a look at it. from qgis.gui import * rb =

Re: [Qgis-developer] Webpage

2012-11-14 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Meanwhile the word on the osgeo-discuss mailing list is 'awesome!'. I honestly looked at this new GRASS web site and thought I was still looking at the old one (not that I go there much). Rounded corners, wrong use of tabs, poor handling of narrow screens (the tabs wrap and the content gets pushed

Re: [Qgis-developer] Webpage

2012-11-14 Thread Werner Macho
Hi! Well there will always be lots of space for improvement and of course all things pointed out by Tim are correct .. Surely I did not mean to copy it bit by bit - but at least .. and that's the major point .. the new page is nevertheless an improvement over the last one. And .. there is some

Re: [Qgis-developer] Manipulating JSON files from Python

2012-11-14 Thread Matthias Kuhn
Why not use the default python library? It will probably give the least dependency problems. http://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 14:02 +0100, Andreas Neumann wrote: Hi all, I would like to write small utility to manipulate metadata in a JSON file (for QGIS

Re: [Qgis-developer] Manipulating JSON files from Python

2012-11-14 Thread Andreas Neumann
Thanks all for your hints. Will have a look at the built-in json module. Will have to find out how the dictionary looks like, that python is generating and how to traverse it. Thanks, Andreas Am 14.11.2012 14:19, schrieb Matthias Kuhn: Why not use the default python library? It will probably

Re: [Qgis-developer] Webpage

2012-11-14 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: Meanwhile the word on the osgeo-discuss mailing list is 'awesome!'. I honestly looked at this new GRASS web site and thought I was still looking at the old one (not that I go there much). Rounded

[Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hi all. Just read the release notes of Mapserver: http://www.mapserver.org/development/announce/6-2.html It would be nice to have some of these nice new features in QGIS server also. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread G. Allegri
Which features would you port to QGis server? WFS-T maybe? As far as I remeber it has been already proposed in a ticket. TinyOWS, AFAIK, works only with PG, and I think Qgis already has what is needed to implement WFS-T. giovanni 2012/11/14 Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it Hi all. Just

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread rldhont
WFS-T is already in QGIS Server Le 14/11/2012 16:49, G. Allegri a écrit : Which features would you port to QGis server? WFS-T maybe? As far as I remeber it has been already proposed in a ticket. TinyOWS, AFAIK, works only with PG, and I think Qgis already has what is needed to implement

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread G. Allegri
Hi René, I missed the push from the wfs_server_transaction to trunk. Great. giovanni 2012/11/14 rldhont rldh...@gmail.com WFS-T is already in QGIS Server Le 14/11/2012 16:49, G. Allegri a écrit : Which features would you port to QGis server? WFS-T maybe? As far as I remeber it has been

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread rldhont
Hi Paolo, Which features are you interested in ? Regards, René-Luc Le 14/11/2012 16:33, Paolo Cavallini a écrit : Hi all. Just read the release notes of Mapserver: http://www.mapserver.org/development/announce/6-2.html It would be nice to have some of these nice new features in QGIS server

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread rldhont
Le 14/11/2012 16:33, Paolo Cavallini a écrit : Hi all. Just read the release notes of Mapserver: http://www.mapserver.org/development/announce/6-2.html It would be nice to have some of these nice new features in QGIS server also. All the best. If you are interested in using your own SVG

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread G. Allegri
I have been using my own SVG markers setting them as a subfolder of the general qgis icons folder. This solves the problem of opening/saving a shared project between my PC and the server... giovanni 2012/11/14 rldhont rldh...@gmail.com Le 14/11/2012 16:33, Paolo Cavallini a écrit : Hi all.

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 14/11/2012 17:01, rldhont ha scritto: Hi Paolo, Which features are you interested in ? e.g.: - integrated tiling - INSPIRE - mask layers - symbol placement - label offsets thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread G. Allegri
- integrated tiling +1. Wasn't someone working on something like this for Qgis? - mask layers - symbol placement - label offsets shouldn't these use the Qgis symbology/labelling features? giovanni thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread Vincent Picavet
Hi, Which features are you interested in ? e.g.: - integrated tiling Why not integrating mapcache directly to mutualize effort on this part ? Mapcache can be used standalone, and could read its parameters directly from a qgis configuration file. No need to reinvent the wheel here, or

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread G. Allegri
- integrated tiling Why not integrating mapcache directly to mutualize effort on this part ? Mapcache can be used standalone, and could read its parameters directly from a qgis configuration file. No need to reinvent the wheel here, or would there be a good reason to it ? I think that a

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread kimaidou
Hi all Some ideas : * templates for HTML popups (already done this in Lizmap, but why not having it in Qgis) * tile generator : I agree with Giovanni Allegri, beginning with a mbtiles generator from a layer/a group in Qgis would be a first step, as Tim suggested in Lyon hackfest. But why not

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi, Am 14.11.2012 19:13, schrieb kimaidou: Hi all Some ideas : * templates for HTML popups (already done this in Lizmap, but why not having it in Qgis) You can use HTML for the maptips in QGIS trunk. With the expression builder you can write any HTML you want from various different

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread Andreas Neumann
well always someone is ahead of the others. Mapserver is catching up with the vector field renderer, SVG symbols and labeling. We have to catch up with other features. It is good to have competition. The one thing were UMN Mapserver is a much better is performance. This is where we should

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread kimaidou
Hi 2012/11/14 Vincent Picavet vincent...@oslandia.com Hi, * templates for HTML popups (already done this in Lizmap, but why not having it in Qgis) You mean accessing the templates through QGIS server ? Because html popups already are in QGIS :) I mean through Qgis Server (in respect

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread Vincent Picavet
Hi, The one thing were UMN Mapserver is a much better is performance. This is where we should really catch up. I would put this to the higher position! I don't know where the effort should be put, because I suppose it's something deep in the rendering engine of QGis. Do you see

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread G. Allegri
Actually, if performance is important a cache proxy should be used. I do it with UMN Mapserver too. With tile rendering, requested through MapProxy or similar WMS-T/TMS server, we should provide metatiling and buffering. That would be needed by the tile generator too, I suppose... giovanni

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V.
I am very interested in participating in this as it points out to be a main topic in the EU and also targets performance dicussions. Marco Am 14.11.2012 17:42, schrieb Paolo Cavallini: ... - INSPIRE ___ Qgis-developer mailing list

Re: [Qgis-developer] Remaining work to get rid of old labeling?

2012-11-14 Thread Larry Shaffer
Hi Andreas, On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net wrote: Hi Larry, Hi all, At the Essen developer meeting we discussed that we want to get rid of the double versions (labeling, symbology, diagrams - more?) The new diagram are now in good shape thanks to the

Re: [Qgis-developer] Remaining work to get rid of old labeling?

2012-11-14 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 14/11/2012 21:24, Larry Shaffer ha scritto: I am not sure if any other QGIS functionality still uses the old labeling engine. Even so, at least updating the new engine's features to the point of removing the old engine's gui should be a priority; while removing the old labeling engine code

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 14/11/2012 21:02, Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. ha scritto: I am very interested in participating in this as it points out to be a main topic in the EU and also targets performance dicussions. Hi all. Glad to see my note has solicited so much interest. Let me try to summarize: - INSPIRE

Re: [Qgis-developer] Manipulating JSON files from Python

2012-11-14 Thread Noli Sicad
This might help. Tablib: Pythonic Tabular Datasets http://docs.python-tablib.org/en/latest/ tablib.Dataset() A Dataset is a table of tabular data. It may or may not have a header row. They can be build and manipulated as raw Python datatypes (Lists of tuples|dictionaries). Datasets can be

Re: [Qgis-developer] Manipulating JSON files from Python

2012-11-14 Thread Noli Sicad
Editing while reading in tablib - pull request https://github.com/kennethreitz/tablib/pull/84 Noli On 11/15/12, Pēteris Brūns p...@sungis.lv wrote: Probably in other case yes, but for Andreas required things better is to use python built in functionality and escape from external

Re: [Qgis-developer] Server features

2012-11-14 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi, For 90% of my projects performance is really good. For the remaining 10%, rather complext projects, I would say it is good enough, but it could be snappier. I am specifically talking about the Leitungskataster project, the project displaying all supply lines and waste-water lines, containing