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 about 10 years ago. Updated about 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 about 10 years ago

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

History

#1 Updated by Jürgen Fischer about 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 about 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 about 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)

#4 Updated by Nathan Woodrow about 10 years ago

  • Priority changed from Normal to Severe/Regression
  • Target version set to Version 2.6

Yes I agree. It is a drop in usability.

#5 Updated by Jürgen Fischer about 10 years ago

  • Tracker changed from Feature request to Bug report

#6 Updated by Jürgen Fischer about 10 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed

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