[Qgis-developer] Improper vertical spacing in legend (Ticket #3605), need to revert changeset 15242 (by mhugent) to fix issue

2011-03-24 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Greetings, Few weeks ago, QGIS trunk started rendering composer's legend with odd/unneeded vertical spaces (see http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3605 for a screenshot of issue). I believe the problem is caused by changset 15242, applied by mhugent 4 weeks ago. The changset pulled the

[Qgis-developer] Re: something went terribly wrong with reprojected rasters in the last 72 hours

2011-05-06 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
]; mSrcExtent.combineExtentWith( myPoint.x(), myPoint.y() ); Radim On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Radim Blazek, I'm forwarding you an email sent to the qgis-developer list hoping it can speed up a major raster rendering issue emerging days before the 1.7

Re: [Qgis-developer] 1.8 release?

2011-10-20 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
For what it's worth, I'd also appreciate a 1.8 release, with the expression based labeling (https://github.com/qgis/Quantum-GIS/pull/51) included : ) Math On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Werner Macho werner.ma...@gmail.comwrote: Hi! I'd vote for a 1.8 release meeting at the hackfest - clean

[Qgis-developer] new regression on to-be 1.8: crs attribution on newly loaded layer broken

2012-05-14 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Something's seriously wrong with CRS attribution for newly added layers in qgis-master (soon to be 1.8). I have no idea what is happening, however the steps below will reproduce the issue: 1) Add moeareas.shp (uploaded as attachment in issue 5598: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5598) to a QGIS

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] Webpage

2012-11-13 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Greetings, 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 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] 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] Announce QTiles plugin

2012-12-30 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
This is probably the best gift given out this christmas : ) Alexander, quick question, does QTiles render the tiles in the CRS defined by the project, or does it automatically switches to the Google Mercator? Best, Math On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:24 PM, G. Allegri gioha...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Announce QTiles plugin

2012-12-30 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
that, I'm loving it more and more ;) Math On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.comwrote: This is probably the best gift given out this christmas : ) Alexander, quick question, does QTiles render the tiles in the CRS defined by the project, or does it automatically

Re: [Qgis-developer] Announce QTiles plugin

2012-12-31 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
One more thing, it would be very useful to offer users the possibility of having transparent background (i.e. no white or project setting background filling color). On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.comwrote: Alex, alright, should have looked at the source

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

2013-02-18 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Radim, Following up on your implementation of the nice legend's multicolumn feature. I've noticed two regression (one of which I've filed a bug already). 1) The right-side box spacing is now miscalculated as it fails to add the icon label space value. Issue 7099 (http://hub.qgis.org/issues/7099)

Re: [Qgis-developer] New OpenStreetMap integration

2013-02-28 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Martin, Nice, glad the OSM download/import support is being worked on. I've just tried to import two OSM files: one which I had saved through JOSM, and the other one downloaded just now via your Download OSM Data dialogue. With both files, QGIS fails to import data with this error: Failed to

Re: [Qgis-developer] New OpenStreetMap integration

2013-03-03 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
at 5:45 AM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.com wrote: Martin, Nice, glad the OSM download/import support is being worked on. I've just tried to import two OSM files: one which I had saved through JOSM, and the other one downloaded just now via your Download OSM Data dialogue

Re: [Qgis-developer] Feature freeze commencing the ides of March

2013-03-04 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
The new diagrams engine is solid, working better than the old one in all the scenarios I've met. It's only weakness is that it doesn't play well with the PAL engine. M On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Matthias Kuhn matthias.k...@gmx.ch wrote: On 03/05/2013 08:06 AM, Alexander Bruy wrote: On

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

2013-03-13 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.com wrote: Radim, Following up on your implementation of the nice legend's multicolumn feature. I've noticed two regression (one of which I've filed a bug already). 1) The right-side box spacing

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

2013-03-14 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Mathieu Pellerin [hidden email]http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=5040281i=0 wrote: Radim, Thanks for fixing the width issue. Regarding layers with no titles and the need for treating the space like a layer item, see http://hub.qgis.org

Re: [Qgis-developer] feature-freeze exception -- blend modes and transparency for composer items

2013-04-01 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Nyall, those are really great additions. When you have a minute, you should look at a blend modes issue I spotted and described over here: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/7461 Cheers. Math On 1 Apr 2013 18:14, Nyall Dawson nyall.daw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I realise I missed the feature

Re: [Qgis-developer] Old symbology removed in master

2013-04-08 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Re texture fill, does the svg fill support bitmap within svg? M On 8 Apr 2013 13:25, Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net wrote: Hi Martin, Thank you for your work on removing the old symbology stuff. Marco is working on data-defined symbology and it is already in master. These are now all

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-16 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
There might be a way to make most people happy here. I find the vector menu a nice ui shortcut for useful functions. If sextante relevant functions are at par (or better), couldn't the vector menu items stay, which would please many, and when clicked triggers sextante's function dialogue? Victor?

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Anita, yep, remove code for ftool functions that are in sextante but keep vector menu shortcuts. On 17 Apr 2013 12:42, Anita Graser anitagra...@gmx.at wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.comwrote: There might be a way to make most people happy here. I

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Paolo, imo decision of looking into this option for 2.0 vs 2.1 should be primarily driven by quality. If qgis can offer better quality in vector functions by maintaining the two mechanism for 2.0 then it should be deferred to 2.1. If the opposite is true, then might be worth for Victor to weight

[Qgis-developer] sextante: missing GRASS pan sharpening function (i.fusion.brovey)

2013-04-21 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Victor, Would it be possible for you to add GRASS' pan sharpening function (i.fusion.brovey) to sextante? I'm sure that'll make more than one guy happy :) Keep up the good work, lots of very nice tweaks to sextante lately. Math ___ Qgis-developer

Re: [Qgis-developer] sextante: missing GRASS pan sharpening function (i.fusion.brovey)

2013-04-22 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
sensor|False OutputRaster|outputprefix|Prefix of output raster |False Math On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 22/04/2013 04:31, Mathieu Pellerin ha scritto: Victor, Would it be possible for you to add

[Qgis-developer] serious regression out of new vector api needs attention prior to 2.0

2013-04-23 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Greetings, I've filed an issue over the weekend which IMO is a really serious regression which shouldn't be left unresolved prior to the imminent 2.0 release. Long story short, when a layer symbology is set to categorized, graduated, or rule-based, all features will disappear when editing

Re: [Qgis-developer] Feature freeze exception?

2013-04-25 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Since blend modes are found everywhere else (vector,raster,label,composer items), an exception to allow addition of blend mode on the only remaining gap would make sense. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: +1 from me. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:46 PM,

Re: [Qgis-developer] Logo Update

2013-04-30 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
New logos withdrawn. My 2 cents: I feel like design #50 is overly generic. Simply logos are good, but wondering whether this one went on the road of simplification to the extreme, leaving a logo with a *slight* gap in meaningfulness. There could be ways to remedy to that while keeping overall

Re: [Qgis-developer] New values available for plugin installer

2013-05-01 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Re total download showing oldest plugins, might be nice to offer another indicator based on total download _for the last four weeks_, that would reflect better current interest. Four weeks is arbitrary, could be eight, or two :) On 2 May 2013 07:34, Olivier Dalang olivier.dal...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Qgis-developer] New values available for plugin installer

2013-05-01 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Might be worth adding to server a one month log for plugins download and come up with that stat. On 2 May 2013 12:44, Alessandro Pasotti apaso...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/5/2 Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.com Re total download showing oldest plugins, might be nice to offer another indicator

Re: [Qgis-developer] Logo Update

2013-05-03 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
#419 looks really nice. The bevel / gradients need to be a tiny more discrete, but the overall feeling and direction is great. On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Nyall Dawson nyall.daw...@gmail.com wrote: #412 and #419 look great -- they're my favourites of the contest so far! Nyall

Re: [Qgis-developer] Size scale field not working with centroid fill

2013-05-06 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Alexandre, Might be linked to this issue: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/7738 -- centroid fill always use map unit even when set to millimetres. Mathieu On 6 May 2013 18:09, Alexandre Neto senhor.n...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Using Size scale field does not seam to be working with centroid

[Qgis-developer] Creating a pool of maps showcasing QGIS upcoming v2.0 features

2013-05-06 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
in. Is this something you guys would be interested in participating to? Mathieu Pellerin ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer

Re: [Qgis-developer] Creating a pool of maps showcasing QGIS upcoming v2.0 features

2013-05-06 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
QGIS. Regards, Nathan On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.comwrote: Greetings all, As we are fast approaching the day QGIS v2.0 will be release, I thought it might be useful to create a public pool of nice maps showcasing some of the new features that'll

Re: [Qgis-developer] Creating a pool of maps showcasing QGIS upcoming v2.0 features

2013-05-07 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
I believe photos posted within Flickr Groups can be seen without need to log in (see for e.g. http://www.flickr.com/groups/theleague/pool/). That being said, it doesn't seem to work for the Flickr QGIS Group set up earlier today. It might have to do an incubation time required before Flickr opens

Re: [Qgis-developer] Creating a pool of maps showcasing QGIS upcoming v2.0 features

2013-05-07 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Alright, the problem is with my account, it's been inactive for too long and it's considering my photos as suspect for the next few days. Nathan has an active account, hence his map(s) showing when not a member. Math On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.comwrote

Re: [Qgis-developer] Creating a pool of maps showcasing QGIS upcoming v2.0 features

2013-05-09 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Paolo, that issue has been fixed, thanks to flickr's quick response. The flickr group now shows all six maps without need to be a member. Thanks to Anita for having posted some of her QGIS 2.0-dependent maps in the last few days. Mathieu On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Paolo Cavallini

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS 2.0 and beyond

2013-05-28 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
As a first step, could we all individually go to the hub and review our blockers to possibly remove some blockers that are not crucial to a 2.0 release or dups of previous reports? That would facilitate Giovanni's job. Also, while ideally a product should be shipped regression-free, this needs to

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS 2.0 and beyond

2013-06-02 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Glad to hear you guys will meet on the 2.0 release. In the hope it can help your meeting, I'd like to share my 2 cents as a QGIS evangelist in Southeast Asia. Note, I'm running on QGIS master, so the argument below isn't out of self-interest ;o) In the beginning of March 2013, Tim announced a

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS 2.0 and beyond

2013-06-02 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
So what's the hard deadline for SIP, this coming weekend? On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.comwrote: I feel that for the SIP upgrade to be considered so late in the release process

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS Logo

2013-07-14 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
+1 for agreeing on a logo across the board. If vector proposal agreed, it'd also be a good opportunity to add high resolution icons for application shortcuts on Win / Linux / OSX. By 2013, qgis is the only low res icon on my desktop :) On 14 Jul 2013 19:43, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS Logo

2013-08-11 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Small reminder: neither the QGIS application shortcut (on linux and windows OSes) nor the logo used in the About QGIS window are using the above mentioned SVG. On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:29 AM, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Alex, We are going with the svg that is assigned to

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS Browser icon

2013-09-02 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Larry, +1 for working out some visual distinction between QGIS and QGIS Browser. That said, the proposed canvas-below-icon might be confusing. If I was a first time user, I'd bet on the canvas icon being the main application to make maps, versus it being a browser-only supporting application.

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS 2.0.0 Final Tagged - call for packaging

2013-09-08 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Tim, the visual changelog draft is excellent, excellent resource for QGIS evangelists out there. I'd re-think the new labeling engine screenshot, maybe a map screenshot featuring shield and drop shadow instead of the configuration dialog (which is shown in the data-defined labeling section

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS 2.0.0 Final Tagged - call for packaging

2013-09-08 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
should be used, merely referring to those as alternatives to relying on a user interface as screenshot to showcase feature X,Y,Z M On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.comwrote: Tim, the visual changelog draft is excellent, excellent resource for QGIS

Re: [Qgis-developer] Suppress rendering of small features

2013-09-12 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Could this be done using a rule-based expression through the creation of a variable that returns the pixel-size area of a polygon / pixel-size length of a line? On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Matthias Kuhn matthias.k...@gmx.ch wrote: Hi, How would you define small? I guess something can

Re: [Qgis-developer] Roadmap for 2.2

2013-11-04 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
As others have pointed out, there's already a substantial amount of new features in qgis master. Beyond what was mentioned above, there's: world file on qgis composer export, expression based {categorized, graduated} symbology, notable improvements in the spatialite postegresql drivers,

Re: [Qgis-developer] Legend for proportionnal symbols and expression based symbols

2013-12-04 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Now that's just gorgeous. On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Nyall Dawson nyall.daw...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't had a chance to properly plan this out, but something which has been playing in the back of my mind is the idea of table legends. Take a look at the legend in this map:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Can we deactivate the Select datum transformations dialog by default?

2014-01-20 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
+1, for two reasons: * the advances function isn't needed for many types of qgis users * the UI would benefit from re arrangements to make it more friendly when users run into it (ie a short paragraph above list box to explain what this is about, like with the crs selector) On 21 Jan 2014 06:09,

Re: [Qgis-developer] On the fly simplication of point layers

2014-01-20 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Also, that logic can only be applied for fully opaque point symbols. As soon as you have a semi transparent symbol, the repetition of points over a same map pixel does matter and needs to be preserved. On 21 Jan 2014 07:46, A Huarte ahuart...@yahoo.es wrote: Ok, I will study it If you have

Re: [Qgis-developer] On the fly simplication of point layers

2014-01-22 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Jan 2014 3:10 AM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.com wrote: Also, that logic can only be applied for fully opaque point symbols. As soon as you have a semi transparent symbol, the repetition of points over a same map pixel does matter and needs to be preserved. Agreed but in that case

Re: [Qgis-developer] Post-release period of portable commits only?

2014-02-23 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
That reminds me of someone mentioning in a ticket of a 2.0 issue resolved against qgis 2.1 that he'd wait (angrily?) having fix backported into a (mythical) 2.0.x update rather than him moving to 2.2 and having to deal with possible regressions. I was thinking at the time that this sounds to me

Re: [Qgis-developer] Multi-threading rendering merged to master

2014-02-23 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Martin, Fantastic work; I knew to expect a better rendering experience, yet I was caught by surprise at how much of a positive difference it makes. Few things from my 10-minutes play with it: * The map overview extend is broken, its extend goes way, way beyond the extend of the sum of all the

Re: [Qgis-developer] Post-release period of portable commits only?

2014-02-23 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Just to be clear, I don't think QGIS can handle more than one pre release. The list of terminologies was just there as a pick one name you like :) On 24 Feb 2014 13:22, Denis Rouzaud denis.rouz...@gmail.com wrote: On 24. 02. 14 03:17, Mathieu Pellerin wrote: QGIS could adopt: 4, or 2, weeks

Re: [Qgis-developer] Post-release period of portable commits only?

2014-02-24 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
wrote: Hi Mathieu, On Mon, 24. Feb 2014 at 09:17:11 +0700, Mathieu Pellerin wrote: That reminds me of someone mentioning in a ticket of a 2.0 issue resolved against qgis 2.1 that he'd wait (angrily?) having fix backported into a (mythical) 2.0.x update rather than him moving to 2.2

Re: [Qgis-developer] Post-release period of portable commits only?

2014-02-24 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
before it's released *with an official beta/preview build*. :) On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.comwrote: Nightly builds (or weekly snapshots for that matter) are very different from a publicized, pre-release preview build. With a prepared pre-release preview

Re: [Qgis-developer] Multi-threading rendering merged to master

2014-02-26 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Happy to report that following Martin's last commit ( https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/daf1e0b6881cdb77df6f6a9dc988ad92e0f9019d), I cannot see any issues with vector/raster layer rendering, as well as labelling. All renders like 2.2, except the user experience is 10 times better :) Larry, I'm

Re: [Qgis-developer] Renaming Save Style - Save Properties (Vector layer dialog)

2014-03-02 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
I like where it's going. Re check boxes, I'd love to see intelligent switch buttons beyond check all uncheck all. A check styling only (symbology + label) button, a check non - style only button would be really useful. Like some media players do to check audio only vs video audio. On 2 Mar 2014

Re: [Qgis-developer] Using PostGIS on a slow connection

2014-03-03 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Martin, maybe render caching should be turned/forced on by default on qgis master builds right now so there can be a higher of ppl using it and reporting possible regressions? If it's now smooth and problem-free following mtr merge, it can be left on by default for final 2.4 release. On 3 Mar 2014

Re: [Qgis-developer] Deactivating multi-threaded rendering - Was: QGIS' TimeManager plugin in action

2014-04-05 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
plugins (which are not working well with multi-threaded rendering) deactivate the feature when needed? Thanks and best wishes, Anita Am 04.04.2014, 05:44 Uhr, schrieb Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.com : Hmm, is there no way to deactivate MTR? As far as I understand, while we

Re: [Qgis-developer] How to get renderComplete painter reference

2014-04-06 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Anita, just saw you commited a fix. Thanks! May I suggest a small improvement? You should calculate the time it took, in ms, to render canvas and deduce that ms value from the animationFrameLength ms value in your singleShot call: QTimer.singleShot(self.animationFrameLength,self.playAnimation)

Re: [Qgis-developer] Adding plugins to core?

2014-04-07 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Also, when it comes to OSM, IMO proper TMS support should be what is (eventually) offered as implemented feature to users. That'd allow for OSM basemaps to also export properly in qgis composer. OpenLayer' layers not exporting well in qgis composer is a pretty big limitation. Maybe a simple UI to

Re: [Qgis-developer] new plugin Load TMS Layer

2014-04-07 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Nice, few comments (based on my previous uses of the GDAL TMS mini-driver): - your plugin should make sure the loaded layer is assigned the proper projection (mostly pseudo-mercator); failing to do so will leave must users unable to understand why the TMS rendering fails - that would also switch

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] [ANNOUNCE] 2.3 feature freeze begun

2014-05-24 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
The next weekly build could be spinned as a technical preview build and advertised on the homepage / blog / social media. No additional efforts required on the build front, just a bit of public PR. Math On 24 May 2014 16:16, Anita Graser anitagra...@gmx.at wrote: How about adding the call for

Re: [Qgis-developer] Question on inverted polygon renderer

2014-06-17 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
cool rendering! A quick tip if you're using shapeburst with inverted polygons - you must have the shade to a set distance option selected, and set a relatively small distance. Otherwise you'll see shading from the canvas edges (refs #10570, #9757). Mathieu Pellerin also has some nice examples

Re: [Qgis-developer] Four month cycle too fast

2014-06-19 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
I just want to clarify one thing about this discussion: we are not speaking about delaying the 2.4 release, which users are expecting in the next 48 hours, right? The current state of QGIS master could probably be better, but it's not worse than 2.2 (of course, that's a perception based on my

Re: [Qgis-developer] Announcing the release of QGIS 2.4 'Chugiak'

2014-06-27 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Congratulations to all involved, once again QGIS has leaped forward with a bunch of new features. That said, the test the release candidate on qgis.org should be replaced by enjoy the new version :) On 28 Jun 2014 07:57, Jürgen E. j...@norbit.de wrote: QGIS is a user friendly Open Source

Re: [Qgis-developer] No symbol renderer... thoughts?

2014-06-30 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
I'd vote for the last option as it'd be compatible with rule based symbology, which could be useful when coupled with the [x] show layer count (simple eg creating a ELSE rule with a no-symbol layer to keep track of nb of features not rendered.). Math On 30 Jun 2014 19:38, Nyall Dawson

Re: [Qgis-developer] No symbol renderer... thoughts?

2014-06-30 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
a ELSE rule with a no-symbol layer to keep track of nb of features not rendered.). You can already have no symbol for a rule. Just untick the Symbol checkbox in the rule properties. - Nathan On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.com wrote: I'd vote

Re: [Qgis-developer] Do we need a single select map tool?

2014-07-01 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
+1 On 1 Jul 2014 18:55, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I would like to propose that we remove the single select map tool. Main reason to remove is its function is redundant as the rectangle select does a single point select if you don't drag i.e single click. I live in

Re: [Qgis-developer] Do we need a single select map tool?

2014-07-01 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
So maybe we could change the default selection tool to rectangle? One of the first thing I personally always do when using a fresh qgis (with default settings) is to change selection tool to rectangle for the reason Nathan raised this thread. On 1 Jul 2014 19:38, Nyall Dawson

[Qgis-developer] Proposal: move the Remove layer(s) button

2014-09-05 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Greetings, I'd like to circulate a UX proposal and see how people react. For a very long time, QGIS' Layers toolbar has featured a Remove layer(s) button. I have seen two issues with the button: - Its placement becomes really odd when plugins add button(s) to the Layers toolbar (for e.g. the New

Re: [Qgis-developer] Proposal: move the Remove layer(s) button

2014-09-06 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
to understand when we are on dataset (physical) and when we are on interface (logical). Regards, A. Il 06/09/2014 07:10, Mathieu Pellerin ha scritto: Greetings, I'd like to circulate a UX proposal and see how people react. For a very long time, QGIS' Layers toolbar has featured

Re: [Qgis-developer] Proposal: move the Remove layer(s) button

2014-09-06 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
* note: there is no keyboard shortcut to delete a group, doh. :) On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think you should comparing adding group/dataset against deleting a group/dataset legend layer. The latter is already unified via either

Re: [Qgis-developer] Heads-up: Code freeze starts on 2014-09-26 (4 days)

2014-09-22 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Thanks for the reminder Jürgen. Tim, could you create a visual changelog page for the upcoming 2.6 release? We can start now to append the new features so it can be as complete as possible. M On 22 Sep 2014 19:00, Jürgen E. j...@norbit.de wrote: Hi, I'd like to remind everyone that the 2.5

Re: [Qgis-developer] Module dependencies

2014-09-23 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
+1 to get new memory layer and memory layer saver plugins into core. Memory layers are a very cool useful function of qgis, all of its basic functionality should be in core. On 23 Sep 2014 15:04, Nyall Dawson nyall.daw...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/09/2014 5:46 pm, Andrea Peri aperi2...@gmail.com

Re: [Qgis-developer] Memory Layers - some proposals

2014-09-24 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Regarding the saving aspect of it, IMO it needs to be worked out. I've had a couple of users over here already reporting data loss with the following scenario: 1. Open his/her project 2. Copies one polygon from a large dataset and pastes is as a new memory layer (very useful feature introduced in

Re: [Qgis-developer] Memory Layers - some proposals

2014-09-24 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
layer-like warning dialog when closing project On 25 Sep 2014 12:15, Denis Rouzaud denis.rouz...@gmail.com wrote: On 25.09.2014 04:02, Mathieu Pellerin wrote: Regarding the saving aspect of it, IMO it needs to be worked out. I've had a couple of users over here already reporting data loss

Re: [Qgis-developer] Memory Layers - some proposals

2014-09-25 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
? - Nathan On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.com wrote: Thoughts: - I don't think warning should be occurring when creating a memory layer (that is when pasting as new layer, when adding the result of a processing algorithm as memory layer, or creating a blank

Re: [Qgis-developer] Memory Layers - some proposals

2014-09-25 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Temporary Layers, I find it slightly better than Scratch Layer for non native English speakers (i.e. more to the point in simple English :) ). M On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Nyall Dawson nyall.daw...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/09/2014 4:27 pm, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Considering that one of QGIS' main source of funding for development is through financial sponsorship of _independent_ developers, I'd be very careful not to take decisions that would hurt that ecosystem without asking those independent developers the reasoning behind leaving a trace in the commit

Re: [Qgis-developer] weekly build problem

2014-10-14 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Rename your .qgis2 folder in your user profile directory (eg c:\users\my_name\.qgis2) to something else to try a vanilla qgis configuration. If speed goes back to normal, problem lies with a plugin, or less likely a non-default qgis setting. M On 15 Oct 2014 12:52, Stott, James

Re: [Qgis-developer] 2.6: first overview

2014-11-02 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Niccola, With regards to point 1 2, you would increase the chance of those issues being fixed (and help QGIS) by filing tickets at hub.qgis.org . Be as descriptive as you can, provide steps to reproduce what affects you; that should be enough to get a developer to look into it. Sample data

Re: [Qgis-developer] issues in QGIS 2.6 when saving/working with projects saved in previous QGIS releases

2014-11-07 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
I'm wondering whether it has to do with a composer legend item crasher that Martin fixed days ago. Are users sharing the project files that make qgis crash? On 7 Nov 2014 20:53, Giovanni Manghi giovanni.man...@faunalia.pt wrote: Hi all, we are getting quite a lot of feedback (in the tracker,

Re: [Qgis-developer] issues in QGIS 2.6 when saving/working with projects saved in previous QGIS releases

2014-11-07 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
IMO, this is serious enough to package a 2.6.1 release speedily. There are enough ppl out there that don't backup their documents on a regular basis for this bug to be hugely problematic. On 8 Nov 2014 00:49, Martin Dobias wonder...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Mathieu

Re: [Qgis-developer] Composer... current status and the way forward?

2014-11-07 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Nyall, Please, let's not go down the road of two options to do the same thing (ala double symbology double labelling engine era of qgis 1.x) Nor can we leave users' previously saved composers broken. So #2 seems to be the wining option. A fundamental change like that would go very well with a

[Qgis-developer] Stability (2.8 LTS) vs development (3.0), a proposed way forward

2014-11-09 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Guys, The recent thread Nyall kick-started with his “QGIS 3.0?” email got me to think about the eternal stability vs. development dilemma it (re-)exposed through the conversation. More specifically, it got me to brainstorm on the best way forward for QGIS at this juncture and whether there's a

Re: [Qgis-developer] Stability (2.8 LTS) vs development (3.0), a proposed way forward

2014-11-10 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
geodr...@gmail.com wrote: Yes yes yes. +1 but also +999 :) Roberto 2014-11-10 2:27 GMT+01:00 Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.com: Guys, The recent thread Nyall kick-started with his “QGIS 3.0?” email got me to think about the eternal stability vs. development dilemma it (re

Re: [Qgis-developer] Heatmap renderer: caching possible?

2014-11-26 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Hmm, handling a cache for the heatmap renderer would probably be quite challenging. Let's say a temporary raster heatmap is created to ease panning, you'd have to re do this every time the zoom level is changed. You could decide to cache as many temporary raster hearmaps as zoom levels requested

Re: [Qgis-developer] Ugly jumping maps while zooming

2014-12-22 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Thanks for fixing the jumping issue for non-rotated canvas. That said, I'm wondering whether the rotation feature should be exposed in the status bar unless all of the basic canvas interactions are taught how to deal with rotation (which inc. flawless zoom / pan experience and probably north

Re: [Qgis-developer] Ugly jumping maps while zooming

2014-12-23 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
To be fair to all, there should probably be an agreed upon understanding on what would need fixing/implementing for the rotation feature to sticik prior to 2.8, and if it can't be achieved by then revert the commits until next dev cycle? I can't be the judge of that, senior devs needed :) On 23

[Qgis-developer] Virtual column joins

2015-01-22 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Greetings, Earlier this week, I ran into the need to do a temporary join between two datasets that would have relied on a virtual column. It however seems that QGIS is unable to do so as the virtual colum did not appear in the list of available columns to use to establish a join. Is that a known

Re: [Qgis-developer] Rotation status and PSC meeting

2015-01-15 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
). That would simplify and bulletproof the code in many places beyond the composer map item. Food for thoughts. Math On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.com wrote: Sandro, The last few weeks has been a nice leap forward when it comes to your rotation feature

Re: [Qgis-developer] Rotation status and PSC meeting

2015-01-15 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Sandro, The last few weeks has been a nice leap forward when it comes to your rotation feature, congratulation on that. IMO, based on the improvements, it's worth considering _removing the activation option altogether_ from the preference window. I can't see any stability and usability issue

[Qgis-developer] Status of 2.8.1 offering on QGIS website

2015-02-27 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Greetings, I got contacted by a student yesterday asking whether 2.8 was out. He knew of release date and visited website but only saw 2.6.1. Would be good to update website ASAP. Cheers Math ___ Qgis-developer mailing list

Re: [Qgis-developer] Qt4-Qt5 timeline: Qt4's status and Qt4's webkit removal in Stretch

2015-05-10 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
That's a pretty serious drawback. If there's no way around this, we need to make sure composer labels are improved (and hopefully plug in the canvas label drawing engine to the composer labels). M On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Nyall Dawson nyall.daw...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 May 2015 at

Re: [Qgis-developer] Potentially serious performance regression in new geometry - should 2.10 be delayed?

2015-06-22 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Out of curiosity, how long of a delay do you estimate would be needed to fix things? 4 weeks, 8 weeks? On 23 Jun 2015 09:09, Nyall Dawson nyall.daw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Unfortunately, we've become aware of a serious performance regression caused by the new geometry engine. Basically,

Re: [Qgis-developer] Testing a new chat room for QGIS at https://gitter.im/qgis

2015-06-12 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Whether logged in or not, visiting the link says You've tried to access *qgis's private* organization room and you do not belong to this organization. On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Tim Sutton t...@qgis.org wrote: Hi All If anyone is interested, I started a chat room for QGIS at

Re: [Qgis-developer] Layers and Browser dock widget icons

2015-05-28 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Larry, As Nyall mentioned, icon size of the dock tool button will go back to 16 x 16 by default. That'll make things look the same as before. That said, the border on the buttons (no present on other OSes) aren't very nice. It might be worth adding a style specifically for os x to remove those.

Re: [Qgis-developer] Layers and Browser dock widget icons

2015-05-29 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
small normal big huge instead of the px size, this should scale nicely converting sizes to actual pixels according to DPI. 2015-05-29 2:34 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.com: Larry, As Nyall mentioned, icon size of the dock tool button will go back to 16 x 16 by default

Re: [Qgis-developer] QEP - Proposal for QGIS 3.0 after 2.14

2015-10-23 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
As Jürgen said, it's essentially the same. Yet... :) I also think branching off 2.14 LTR now is slightly preferable. On a psychological level, as the heavy development of new features has in the past mostly taken place on the master branch, it'd make it clearer to devs that the heavy feature

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