Bug report #4762: Inconsistent behavior of legend groups - QGIS Application - QGIS Issue Tracking

Bug report #4762

Inconsistent behavior of legend groups

Added by Alexander Bruy almost 13 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.

Status:	Closed
Priority:	Normal
Assignee:	-
Category:	GUI
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 #:	14626

Description

Legend group checkbox works in a wrong way. Checking group also checks all layers in this group and unchecking group uncheck all layers in this group. State of layers not saved.
For example, we have group with several layers and only one layer checked (see legend-01.jpg). I can't uncheck group - when I try to do this group and all layers become checked (see legend-02.jpg).
IMHO this is wrong and illogical behavior: changing group state should not change layers state.

legend-01.jpg - Group with one layer checked (init state) (12.4 KB) Alexander Bruy, 2012-01-08 02:11 AM

legend-02.jpg - After attemp to uncheck group (12.6 KB) Alexander Bruy, 2012-01-08 02:11 AM

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History

#1 Updated by Jaka Kranjc about 12 years ago

Still present in current HEAD and I agree, this isn't the expected behaviour. Instead of forcing all the sublayers to checked/unchecked, it should just toggle their visibility. I'll try to whip up a patch in the following days.

#2 Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 12 years ago

Operating System deleted (~~all~~)

Jaka Kranjc wrote:

Still present in current HEAD and I agree, this isn't the expected behaviour. Instead of forcing all the sublayers to checked/unchecked, it should just toggle their visibility. I'll try to whip up a patch in the following days.

I guess that this would be better to be discussed in the dev mailing list, rather than having it tagged as bug.