Yeah I'm a -1 on this at the moment. There have been times that I have used it even after the new rendering stuff.
- Nathan On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Denis Rouzaud <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a big -1 on this. > > We often use this for digitizing operations such as manual label placement. > > If you have a projects which takes quite some time to render, it is very > powerful to > 1. place the canvas at the proper extent > 2. disable rendering > 3. move all the labels needed > 4. re-enable rendering for controlling > > In our project, I roughly estimate that using this methodology makes the > operation 2 to 3 times faster. > > Although I agree the status bar is a bit overloaded. > I would propose to: > * remove the text and go for a checkable button > * maybe rephrase "render" to "freeze canvas", so you would need to > activate the button to stop rendering. > > Sorry for that devs ;) > > Denis > > > > Le mar. 28 févr. 2017 à 06:36, Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> a > écrit : > >> Hi all, >> >> Was just chatting to Martin about this - and we both think it's time >> to drop the "render" checkbox from the status bar. >> >> This setting is a bit of a remnant from the pre-multithreaded >> rendering days. Now, there shouldn't be any benefit in switching it on >> ---- and if there is ----- there's a bug which we need to fix! >> >> There's not much code this saves, but it does help de-clutter the >> crowded status bar. >> >> Any objections?? Does anyone still need this checkbox? >> >> Nyall >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> [email protected] >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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