Bug report #12288: Drag and Drop a layer from one QGIS instance to an other - QGIS Application - QGIS Issue Tracking

Bug report #12288

Drag and Drop a layer from one QGIS instance to an other

Added by Peter Drexel over 9 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

Status:	Open
Priority:	Normal
Assignee:	-
Category:	Map Canvas
Affected QGIS version:	3.6.0	Regression?:	No
Operating System:		Easy fix?:	No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:	No	Resolution:
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:	No	Copied to github as #:	20467

Description

When I try to drag a layer from one QGIS instance to an other using Drag and Drop it shows up in the Layer-Tree but is not useable.
This did cause a crash (Minidump) in Versions 2.2 and earlier, but since 2.4 just "does not work".
Thanks
Peter

History

#1 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 9 years ago

Operating System deleted (~~Windows 7~~)
Subject changed from Drag and Drop a Layer from one QGIS-instance to an other to Drag and Drop a layer from one QGIS instance to an other
Category set to Map Canvas
OS version deleted (~~64 Bit~~)
Affected QGIS version changed from 2.4.0 to master

under Linux the layer seems to be "moved" from one instance to the other, but the result does not seems right (nothing shows).

If is not supposed to work at all, then maybe is better to not allow such operation.

#2 Updated by Antonio Locandro over 9 years ago

I think the intended behaviour is to drag a styled layer from another project to a new one, I would expect that but in turn it is moving the layer to another project (removing it from the original) and in the new project it is blank making it useless.

#3 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 9 years ago

Antonio Locandro wrote:

I would expect that but in turn it is moving the layer to another project (removing it from the original) and in the new project it is blank making it useless.

of course, this is why this ticket exist.