Re: [Qgis-developer] Wiki page/area for 'Building QGIS from scratch'

2017-03-21 Thread John Hawkinson
ot really in the same way. I'd much rather have good documentation than continuously-tested documentation. Maybe that's an artificial tradeoff and we can have both. But I'm not convinced (not that I need to be; again, I'm new here and so far mostly send long emails.) --jh...@mit.

Re: [Qgis-developer] RE. Wiki page/area for 'Building QGIS from scratch'

2017-03-18 Thread John Hawkinson
quests. New and potential contributors don't get discouraged. What's the reason for putting up barriers to documentation like this? Problems with spam or low quality edits? Can I find a robust discussion of the tradeoffs in the list archives? --jh...@mit.edu John Hawkinson _

Re: [Qgis-developer] 3.0 Documentation and branching

2017-03-06 Thread John Hawkinson
Good documentation processes encourage documentation to land when features land. If the process doesn't do that, QGIS will always be falling behind. --jh...@mit.edu John Hawkinson ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS3 theme?

2017-03-02 Thread John Hawkinson
though, most of the changes didn't actually change individual icons; rather, many add icons or reorganize the pallette.) Hopefully that's useful to think about. --jh...@mit.edu John Hawkinson ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS3 theme?

2017-02-27 Thread John Hawkinson
I think they're still concerns? So I guess I would be more comfortable if the discussion acknowledged these tradeoffs. --jh...@mit.edu John Hawkinson ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://list

Re: [Qgis-developer] Transparency/Opacity (was: Outline/border -> stroke? )

2017-02-20 Thread John Hawkinson
ld definitely be misreading this. --jh...@mit.edu John Hawkinson ___ 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

Re: [Qgis-developer] Transparency/Opacity (was: Outline/border -> stroke? )

2017-02-20 Thread John Hawkinson
> An outstanding question is what range we should allow? Behind the > scenes it's generally going to be converted to a 0-255 value, but for > users a 0-100% may be more explanatory. Opinions? The tools I use again express opacity in 0-100%, and I think that's the correct thing for the user interfa

Re: [Qgis-developer] Outline/border -> stroke?

2017-02-18 Thread John Hawkinson
I guess I should chime in here on this thread, too :), since I was invoked originally: > Following up on one of the points raised by John Hawkison (author of > the famous "my first weekend with QGIS" email), Definitely to +1 on Stroke. As for transparency vs. opacity, as I wrote in that email: