Bug report #11411: Impossible to know geometry type and style when editing a vector with "single symbol" symbology in QGIS master - QGIS Application - QGIS Issue Tracking

Bug report #11411

Impossible to know geometry type and style when editing a vector with "single symbol" symbology in QGIS master

Added by Harrissou Santanna almost 10 years ago. Updated almost 10 years ago.

Status:	Closed
Priority:	Severe/Regression
Assignee:	-
Category:	Map Legend
Affected QGIS version:	master	Regression?:	No
Operating System:		Easy fix?:	No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:	No	Resolution:
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:	No	Copied to github as #:	19690

Description

Add a layer
Toggle it into edition
The icon near the layer's name, the one that indicates the type of geometry (and now its symbology), becomes a pencil.
If you have many layers in the project and if you forget the style used by this layer ("single symbol"), it becomes a bit hard to find the layer's features in the map canvas.

When using "Single symbol" symbology, I think there should be a way to still easily identify the layer's geometry type and colour when editing.

Associated revisions

Revision 4bf04e1c
Added by Jürgen Fischer almost 10 years ago

combine layer type and edit icon when editing (fixes #11411)

History

#1 Updated by Jürgen Fischer almost 10 years ago

Target version deleted (~~Version 2.6~~)
Tracker changed from Bug report to Feature request
Category set to GUI
Priority changed from Severe/Regression to Normal

#2 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 10 years ago

Category changed from GUI to Map Legend
Subject changed from Impossible to identify geometry type and colour of layer when editing to Impossible to know geometry type and style when editing a vector with "single symbol" symbology in QGIS master

#3 Updated by Harrissou Santanna almost 10 years ago

Thanks for updating this report but I'd like to understand why it's no more a blocker bug, and not even a bug.
I've read that an issue is considered blocker when a feature that worked in a previous release no longer works. The new design of Map Legend breaks the ability to see which geometry type and style are used when editing a vector with "single symbol" symbology. So IMHO it is a bug and a blocker one. Isn't it?

A great part of my daily work is about digitizing. Such feature is really useful when you have many layers in edition at the same time and the tests I made with Master didn't ease the work. And I don't think I'll be all the time behind my colleagues to remind them they should have made a categorized symbology before toggling to edition their layers.

I think it'd be very helpful and great if a solution is found for this issue before release (even though i'm not sure it's possible)