On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 at 14:02, Nyall Dawson <nyall.daw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi lists, > > Just reporting in the conclusion of the grant work: "Rework handling > of multi-layer, mixed-format datasets". You can read more about the > motivation behind this work at > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/216 > > While the work was partly motivated as an opportunity to clean up some > older parts of the QGIS codebase which were fragile and had low test > coverage, it has also resulted in many improvements and polish in the > QGIS user interface. Specifically: > > - There's a much improved dialog shown when a user has to pick from > multiple layers from a dataset dropped onto QGIS. The dialog will > populate in a background thread, avoiding the UI hangs older QGIS > versions experience when scanning for layers in large files. The > dialog shows a unified view of all layers in the dataset, regardless > of whether they are vector, raster or mesh layers. There's also a new > "filter" widget allowing users to quickly find matching layers in > larger datasets. > > - The browser view of files and file-based datasources has been > reworked. You'll no longer see duplicate entries for the same files > when these files can be read as either raster/vector/mesh layers (e.g. > for netcdf files, geopdf files and other mixed-format types). A lot of > consistency has been added to the right click actions you see when > interacting with file based items, with many bugs fixed along the way. > > Under the hood, we've now got a flexible API for querying sublayers of > a dataset which can be easily extended to new providers so that they > automatically participate in the unified sublayers dialog and browser > items. It's all protected by a huge number of new unit tests, the > majority of which cover critical functionality which was previously > not being tested.
Oh, I forgot another cool new feature -- when dragging and dropping a geopackage onto QGIS, the dialog showing layers will also show any embedded projects in that gpkg, making it MUCH easier to open them! Nyall _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
