Wow great work Nyall! Regards
Tim Sent from my iPhone > On 28 Jul 2021, at 07:43, Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it> wrote: > > Thanks a lot Nyall, I'm sure you did more and better work than it was > expected. Our donors can be happy. > Cheers. > > Il 28 luglio 2021 07:02:30 EEST, Nyall Dawson <nyall.daw...@gmail.com> ha > scritto: >> >> 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. >> >> Thanks for funding this work! >> 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 > > -- > Sorry for being short_______________________________________________ > Qgis-psc mailing list > qgis-...@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc
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