[Qgis-developer] Cast your vote: Default icon theme for QGIS 2.0

2012-07-10 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi All Please take a moment to tell us what you think: Should the 'GIS' icon theme be default in QGIS 2.0 (the next release of QGIS). Please visit our poll here to cast your vote: http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4ffb5dfae4b08ad9dfac3f70 In case you are not familiar with the fact that QGIS

Re: [Qgis-developer] Freeze dynamic labels in advanced labeling

2012-07-10 Thread Giovanni Manghi
Hi Larry, Currently, I have to manually move a label to have its coords written. it is known issue. If you want to have the label automatically rotated using a data defined value I think you will need to use the old labelling engine. cheers -- Giovanni --

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS allocation error after upgrade to 1.8.0

2012-07-10 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 11:35:07PM +0200, Daniel Lee wrote: Dear list, As this is my first post to this list, first of all hello ;) I'm really excited about the new version of QGIS. Working with OpenSUSE 12.1 64-bit, I upgraded from the Geo repository to 1.8.0. Now, however, QGIS won't

Re: [Qgis-developer] Cast your vote: Default icon theme for QGIS 2.0

2012-07-10 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 08:28:07AM +0200, Tim Sutton wrote: Hi All Please take a moment to tell us what you think: Should the 'GIS' icon theme be default in QGIS 2.0 (the next release of QGIS). Please visit our poll here to cast your vote:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Cast your vote: Default icon theme for QGIS 2.0

2012-07-10 Thread Alexander Bruy
2012/7/10 Sandro Santilli s...@keybit.net: Like, is it shared across multiple applications, improving consistency of desktop lookfeel ? AFAIK, this icon theme also used in GRASS GUI -- Alexander Bruy ___ Qgis-developer mailing list

Re: [Qgis-developer] Cast your vote: Default icon theme for QGIS 2.0

2012-07-10 Thread Werner Macho
Hi! Is there any reason why would one want to use the 'GIS' theme other than personal preference ? Like, is it shared across multiple applications, improving consistency of desktop lookfeel ? As far as I can see (and already wrote in my email) GRASS is using the GIS Icon Theme in in their

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Cast your vote: Default icon theme for QGIS 2.0

2012-07-10 Thread Martin Landa
2012/7/10 Yves Jacolin (free) yjaco...@free.fr: Am I the only one finding the new QGIS theme icon so ugly (sorry if the word seems strong, I can't find another one as my vocabulary is limited)? hm, are you referring to Robert's icon theme? Well this is really personal taste, and I would

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread Giovanni Manghi
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 07:31 -0700, haubourg wrote: Hi all, i would like to have your feedbacks on that point, before asking new features. I agree, an explicit add table button should be added. cheers -- Giovanni -- ___ Qgis-developer mailing list

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Cast your vote: Default icon theme for QGIS 2.0

2012-07-10 Thread Daniel Lee
Hi there, I also think the GRASS theme is great, although I have to say that I'm a long-time GRASS user. I've often heard complaints about QGIS' icon set, especially in Windows - people feel that it looks a bit unserious, although I don't see it that way. However, I do see great advantages in

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS allocation error after upgrade to 1.8.0

2012-07-10 Thread Daniel Lee
Hi there, Since I'm using the binary from the repository, I wasn't sure what exactly I should wipe out - I don't have anything in /usr/local/lib/ except for a python folder. Instead, I deinstalled QGIS completely using my package manager. As far as I understand it, that should wipe out my system

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Cast your vote: Default icon theme for QGIS 2.0

2012-07-10 Thread Martin Landa
Hi, 2012/7/10 Daniel Lee l...@isi-solutions.org: I also think the GRASS theme is great, although I have to say that I'm a it's not a GRASS theme. wxGUI just uses part of icons from [1] which was designed by Robert Szczepanek as a generic GIS-related icon set (AFAIU). Martin [1]

Re: [Qgis-developer] Cast your vote: Default icon theme for QGIS 2.0

2012-07-10 Thread Yves Jacolin (free)
Le 10/07/2012 10:05, Sandro Santilli a écrit : On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 08:28:07AM +0200, Tim Sutton wrote: Hi All Please take a moment to tell us what you think: Should the 'GIS' icon theme be default in QGIS 2.0 (the next release of QGIS). Please visit our poll here to cast your vote:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I agree that the current solution is not ideal. I did some mockups of an idea I had during the last hackfest. Which can be found here[0] and here[1]. It would unify all the open logic into a single dialog and save space on the tool bar. [0]

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Cast your vote: Default icon theme for QGIS 2.0

2012-07-10 Thread Anita Graser
You can get a good overview over Robert's work at http://robert.szczepanek.pl/icons.php Anita On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Martin Landa landa.mar...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, 2012/7/10 Daniel Lee l...@isi-solutions.org: I also think the GRASS theme is great, although I have to say that

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS allocation error after upgrade to 1.8.0

2012-07-10 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:33:23PM +0200, Daniel Lee wrote: Hi there, Since I'm using the binary from the repository, I wasn't sure what exactly I should wipe out - I don't have anything in /usr/local/lib/ except for a python folder. Instead, I deinstalled QGIS completely using my package

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread G. Allegri
Very good Nathan. I totally support the idea! giovanni 2012/7/10 Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com I agree that the current solution is not ideal. I did some mockups of an idea I had during the last hackfest. Which can be found here[0] and here[1]. It would unify all the open logic into

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Cast your vote: Default icon theme for QGIS 2.0

2012-07-10 Thread Werner Macho
Hi! Well I won't say ugly in any way - even if I would not like them. I guess Yves would not have taken such a word but he explained it that his vocabulary is limited. Of course it is personal preference for everyone - surely. But as Robert tries to unify the icons for all GIS I am strongly in

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Cast your vote: Default icon theme for QGIS 2.0

2012-07-10 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:50:19PM +0200, Anita Graser wrote: You can get a good overview over Robert's work at http://robert.szczepanek.pl/icons.php I think the set being under OSGEO wings is a very good motivation to switch over. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Graphics Hey, there's also a

[Qgis-developer] Custom form init function changes - Kind of API break

2012-07-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey All, This is a just a quick email to let everyone know that I have changed the way that arguments are passed to a layers Init Python function. That is the option that you find in the Layer Properties dialog on the General tab. If you are using this then this will affect you and you will know

Re: [Qgis-developer] Custom form init function changes - Kind of API break

2012-07-10 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Nathan, This makes sense to me. I will have to adapt my code but it is more convenient and powerful now. Thanks a lot, Andreas On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:07:19 +1000, Nathan Woodrow wrote: Hey All, This is a just a quick email to let everyone know that I have changed the way that arguments

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Cast your vote: Default icon theme for QGIS 2.0

2012-07-10 Thread Yves Jacolin (free)
Hello, Le 10/07/2012 12:58, Werner Macho a écrit : Hi! Well I won't say ugly in any way - even if I would not like them. I guess Yves would not have taken such a word but he explained it that his vocabulary is limited. Yes, as said it is definitevely too strong, my apologies for this. Of

Re: [Qgis-developer] Custom form init function changes - Kind of API break

2012-07-10 Thread Marco Hugentobler
Hi Nathan Could you add an entry to http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/API_changes_for_version_20 ? Regards, Marco Am 10.07.2012 13:07, schrieb Nathan Woodrow: Hey All, This is a just a quick email to let everyone know that I have changed the way that arguments are passed to a layers

Re: [Qgis-developer] Custom form init function changes - Kind of API break

2012-07-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Marco, Just added a section for it. - Nathan On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Marco Hugentobler marco.hugentob...@sourcepole.ch wrote: Hi Nathan Could you add an entry to http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/API_changes_for_version_20 ? Regards, Marco Am 10.07.2012 13:07, schrieb

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 10/07/2012 12:47, Nathan Woodrow ha scritto: I agree that the current solution is not ideal. I did some mockups of an idea I had during the last hackfest. Which can be found here[0] and here[1]. It would unify all the open logic into a single dialog and save space on the tool bar. [0]

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread Vincent Picavet
Hi Nathan, You're my hero ! I dream of a unified single «Add data» button / menu entry at night ! Users don't care about «add shapefile» «add raster» «add anotherformatentry». They just want to add data to the map. Let's rationalize all that. Le mardi 10 juillet 2012 12:47:11, Nathan Woodrow a

Re: [Qgis-developer] Custom form init function changes - Kind of API break

2012-07-10 Thread Marco Bernasocchi
Super, thx Marco Bernasocchi (mobile) http://opengis.ch On Jul 10, 2012 1:07 PM, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: Hey All, This is a just a quick email to let everyone know that I have changed the way that arguments are passed to a layers Init Python function. That is the option

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread haubourg
I really like your unified GUI Nathan! Nice.. I would just add a small place for csv data overview (popup window?) and character encoding listbox. Anoter idea: An option to display all files (*.*) in folders would be nice too. For example, there is no filter today to access xls datas, but gdal

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Yeah I think having a show all files would be a good option. My main goal for the dialog is to do a way with as much of the filesystem feel as possible (but not removing it completely) because IMO there is has always been this divide in GIS software with the file system on one side, which people

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
We tried the merge into one button idea once and lets just say it didn't go down too well with the users :) - Nathan On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Etienne Tourigny etourigny@gmail.com wrote: I thinks it's a great idea also. Here is a simple modification (screenshot attached) which

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread Etienne Tourigny
How long ago was that? Now there are 10 buttons in the Layers Toolbar (8 of which are for adding new layers) - which I think is a lot of clutter. I personally shrink that toolbar to just a few icons. Etienne On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: We tried

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread Martin Dobias
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah I think having a show all files would be a good option. My main goal for the dialog is to do a way with as much of the filesystem feel as possible (but not removing it completely) because IMO there is has always

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread Vincent Picavet
Hi, Le mardi 10 juillet 2012 14:47:19, Etienne Tourigny a écrit : Now there are 10 buttons in the Layers Toolbar (8 of which are for adding new layers) - which I think is a lot of clutter. I personally shrink that toolbar to just a few icons. Having icons for opening layers of different kind

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread Giovanni Manghi
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 22:40 +1000, Nathan Woodrow wrote: We tried the merge into one button idea once and lets just say it didn't go down too well with the users :) this is strange because the one button is exactly what most of other gis software has :)

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Well it wasn't one button with a dialog like what I have in mind but a single button as a drop down menu. So it only de-cluttered the toolbar but didn't solve the real issue of having heaps of buttons. For me it's not the 8 buttons but rather the 8 different dialogs that you get, this just leads

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread 欧阳乐岩
But then problems await down the road, when users do not understand why some functionalities are sometimes possible, sometimes not possible. The ultimate goal would be to implement everything for all providers, of course, but this is a long term objective. On 07/10/2012 08:57 PM, Vincent

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread 欧阳乐岩
I like it ! I never use these icons right now, because it would mean going one by one over them and wait for the mouseover popup until I find the one I want. On 07/10/2012 08:38 PM, Etienne Tourigny wrote: I thinks it's a great idea also. Here is a simple modification (screenshot attached)

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 10/07/2012 15:05, Nathan Woodrow ha scritto: different enough to make you think. UI consistency is the one thing we should aim for when designing this kind of stuff. +1, an important goal IMHO -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi

Re: [Qgis-developer] Compiling QGIS with iODBC driver/library for MacOS X and Linux

2012-07-10 Thread William Kyngesburye
I don't think QGIS has any direct linking with [i]ODBC, but would use the Qt ODBC plugin to connect with an ODBC driver. Note that I don't include the Qt ODBC plugin in the Mac QGIS, but I could if that is supposed to work. On Jul 9, 2012, at 10:40 PM, Noli Sicad wrote: Hi, I think it

Re: [Qgis-developer] Compiling QGIS with iODBC driver/library for MacOS X and Linux

2012-07-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I run Linux Mint 10 and I can connect to my MS SQL database without any extra work. Just using the Qt ODBC drivers. You have to use a ODBC DSN but other then that it works as expected. I might do a blog post about it if I can get some time. - Nathan On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Noli Sicad

Re: [Qgis-developer] Compiling QGIS with iODBC driver/library for MacOS X and Linux

2012-07-10 Thread Noli Sicad
Hi William, I don't think QGIS has any direct linking with [i]ODBC, but would use the Qt ODBC plugin to connect with an ODBC driver. Note that I don't include the Qt ODBC plugin in the Mac QGIS, but I could if that is supposed to work. I think it would be good to include Qt ODBC plugin for

Re: [Qgis-developer] Atlas Plugin - Serial Printing - Call for financing

2012-07-10 Thread Vincent Picavet
Hi all, We launched a wider call for funding. Still lacks a few bucks, but we're going to get things done, so do not hesitate to join the effort ! http://www.oslandia.com/?p=1243 Contact me for more infos, remarks or whatever you want to express :) Vincent Le jeudi 28 juin 2012 09:46:08, Andreas

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread Andreas Neumann
I agree. I always hide this Manage Layers toolbar when I start from a new QGIS installation. I use the menu instead. The toolbar wastes just too much screen space in my opinion. Maybe we should hide it by default? I like the idea of having a drop-down button. It could be included in the other

[Qgis-developer] Postgres provider checks queries and refuses CTE

2012-07-10 Thread Vincent Picavet
Hi, The postgres provider apparently does a check on the input query and only tolerates queries beginning with SELECT. The more general SQL query form allows for queries not beginning with select, but still being valid, as it is the case for CTEs. The only way to have qgis load them is to wrap

Re: [Qgis-developer] porting the composer QPaintEngine hack to Python?

2012-07-10 Thread John C. Tull
I can confirm success on my OSX system also with the patch you supplied, Giovanni. Cheers, John On Jul 9, 2012, at 8:13 AM, G. Allegri wrote: The hack is working perfectly! Tha Atlas plugin seems to be working now ;) giovanni 2012/7/5 G. Allegri gioha...@gmail.com Thanks to Jef, the

Re: [Qgis-developer] Postgres provider checks queries and refuses CTE

2012-07-10 Thread Sandro Santilli
+1 for dropping the filter -- trust the user ! --strk; On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:10:23PM +0200, Vincent Picavet wrote: Hi, The postgres provider apparently does a check on the input query and only tolerates queries beginning with SELECT. The more general SQL query form allows for queries

Re: [Qgis-developer] Postgres provider checks queries and refuses CTE

2012-07-10 Thread Giuseppe Sucameli
Hi, On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Vincent Picavet vincent...@oslandia.com wrote: The postgres provider apparently does a check on the input query and only tolerates queries beginning with SELECT. the so called SELECT statement to vector layer [1] was implemented in PG and SL providers

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net wrote: I agree. I always hide this Manage Layers toolbar when I start from a new QGIS installation. I use the menu instead. The toolbar wastes just too much screen space in my opinion. Maybe we should hide it by default?

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Cast your vote: Default icon theme for QGIS 2.0

2012-07-10 Thread Micha Silver
A question regarding the plans for the QGIS icon theme and the GRASS plugin. Currently GRASS (standalone) uses Robert's icons, but the QGIS plugin with the default theme uses other icons. That already could be a small bit of confusion. But when I switch QGIS to the

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Cast your vote: Default icon theme for QGIS 2.0

2012-07-10 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:32:49PM +0300, Micha Silver wrote: A question regarding the plans for the QGIS icon theme and the GRASS plugin. Currently GRASS (standalone) uses Robert's icons, but the QGIS plugin with the default theme uses other icons. That already could be a small

[Qgis-developer] make broken when compiling trunk

2012-07-10 Thread Milo van der Linden
Hi all, I am compiling qGIS trunk on archlinux: Linux-3.4.4-2-ARCH-x86_64-with-glibc2.3.4 I managed to install spatialindex and spatialite from AUR and configuration with ccmake.. goes fine. When I run make, I get: [ 86%] Built target heatmapplugin [ 86%] Building CXX object

Re: [Qgis-developer] make broken when compiling trunk

2012-07-10 Thread 欧阳乐岩
Under Archlinux, you have to force the use of python 2 with these options: PYTHON_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/libpython2.7.so PYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python2 PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES_DIR=/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages PYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/python2.7/ If you compile for the first time, you may

Re: [Qgis-developer] make broken when compiling trunk

2012-07-10 Thread Milo van der Linden
Thank you Leyan! I am trying that right now. 2012/7/10 欧阳乐岩 ouyang.le...@hotmail.com Under Archlinux, you have to force the use of python 2 with these options: PYTHON_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/libpyt**hon2.7.so http://libpython2.7.so PYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/**python2

Re: [Qgis-developer] make broken when compiling trunk

2012-07-10 Thread Milo van der Linden
With ccmake I can only configure the PYTHON_LIBRARY. I have set it to what you suggested. A rerun of make halts at the same line. I am trying AUR: aur/qgis-git 20120429-1 now 2012/7/10 Milo van der Linden m...@dogodigi.net Thank you Leyan! I am trying that right now. 2012/7/10 欧阳乐岩

Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

2012-07-10 Thread Alister Hood
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:32:03 +0100 From: Giovanni Manghi giovanni.man...@faunalia.pt To: haubourg regis.haubo...@eau-adour-garonne.fr Cc: qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas Message-ID:

Re: [Qgis-developer] make broken when compiling trunk

2012-07-10 Thread Milo van der Linden
AUR reported I was missing qwt5. All other dependencies where already in place. The build at exactly the same percentage. I took qgis 1.8 from aur and now it is working. 2012/7/11 Milo van der Linden m...@dogodigi.net With ccmake I can only configure the PYTHON_LIBRARY. I have set it to what

Re: [Qgis-developer] make broken when compiling trunk

2012-07-10 Thread leyan ouyang
Here is the command I used to configure trunk: cmake ../Quantum-GIS -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/my/prefix -DQWT_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/qwt5 -DQWT_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/libqwt5.so -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python2

Re: [Qgis-developer] Compiling QGIS with iODBC driver/library for MacOS X and Linux

2012-07-10 Thread Noli Sicad
Hi Nathan I run Linux Mint 10 and I can connect to my MS SQL database without any extra work. Just using the Qt ODBC drivers. You have to use a ODBC DSN but other then that it works as expected. I might do a blog post about it if I can get some time. Please do a blog on Linux Mint 10 and