Bug report #4101: No indication of the problem when opening a project with an unsupported layer - QGIS Application - QGIS Issue Tracking

Bug report #4101

No indication of the problem when opening a project with an unsupported layer

Added by Alister Hood almost 13 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

Status:	Closed
Priority:	Normal
Assignee:	-
Category:	Project Loading/Saving
Affected QGIS version:	master	Regression?:	No
Operating System:	All	Easy fix?:	No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:	No	Resolution:	end of life
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:	No	Copied to github as #:	14083

Description

Running trunk, when adding an existing project which includes a layer that QGIS cannot load (e.g. an .ecw layer, when the gdal-ecw driver or the required erdas libraries are not present), this layer will be displayed in the "Handle bad layers" dialogue, but its filepath is shown in green, and there is nothing to tell the user why the file can't be loaded.

It needs to somewhere have a message like the one displayed when you try to add an unsupported file as a layer: "xxx is not a valid or recognised data source".

History

#1 Updated by Alister Hood almost 13 years ago

I guess maybe the fact that the "provider" column says "none" is supposed to indicate what the problem is. But then I think this isn't working properly, because it always says "none", even when the problem is that the file does not exist.