Re: [QGIS-Developer] Temporal controller issues

2021-01-07 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 15:38, Nyall Dawson wrote: > > > For example, one can add all sorts of SQL-like filters to a layer > > datasource (which was how the TimeManager plugin worked, if I understand > > correctly) and the selection tool, vertex tool, and so on are not broken by > > that. When so

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Temporal controller issues

2021-01-06 Thread Nyall Dawson
I'm going to respond to your project-level criticism first, and then following that I'll give a technical response: On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 12:33, Cory Albrecht wrote: > > > and that using it for data analysis has been a secondary goal > > > I'm not doing any data analysis. In fact, I doubt that

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Temporal controller issues

2021-01-06 Thread Cory Albrecht
> and that using it for data analysis has been a secondary goal I'm not doing any data analysis. In fact, I doubt that I use even 10% of QGIS's capability. I draw a feature that is the Kingdom of France and set the start_date and end_date attributes appropriately (with -mm-dd resolution) a

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Temporal controller issues

2021-01-05 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 05:42, Cory Albrecht wrote: > > > Please be very wary of your language in future -- every piece of feedback > > worded like this directly equates to a developer losing interest in > > volunteering their time on QGIS, to the harm of all. > > I hear what you're saying, Nyall,

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Temporal controller issues

2021-01-04 Thread Cory Albrecht
> I hear what you're saying, Nyall, I apologise if it sounded harsh, but what do you want me to say after I find out that the latest of several bugs has compromised my data and now I have to hunt down an unknown number of duplicates silently created over the last few months of work? If you empathis

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Temporal controller issues

2021-01-04 Thread Cory Albrecht
> Please be very wary of your language in future -- every piece of feedback worded like this directly equates to a developer losing interest in volunteering their time on QGIS, to the harm of all. I hear what you're saying, Nyall, I apologise if it sounded harsh, but what do you want me to say aft

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Temporal controller issues

2021-01-03 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hi all, Il 04/01/21 03:32, Nyall Dawson ha scritto: > As background, I implemented time handling for vector layers as a > VOLUNTEER (completely unpaid). Would you have preferred I didn't do > this, and we had no time support for vectors at all? Please be very > wary of your language in future --

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Temporal controller issues

2021-01-03 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 at 10:23, Cory Albrecht wrote: > > Can somebody help me under the basics of how things work inside QGIS starting > from when it loads all the features for a layer through the steps, and then > finally drawing them on the map canvas, specifically with respect to the new > temp

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Temporal controller issues

2021-01-02 Thread Cory Albrecht
> I understand your frustration, Thank you. > the usual recommendation is to use the LTR version (currently 3.10) if you want stability, any other version (especially master) is risky. Using a version labelled as "release" shouldn't be risky, though. Calling it a "release" implies that a level o

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Temporal controller issues

2021-01-02 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 6:34 PM Cory Albrecht wrote: > > > Let's try to stay positive. NTC is still young, and rapidly evolving. It is > > hard to keep up with all (possible) use cases. > > I didn't say all possible use cases though. Basic tools—like identify, > select, and the vertex editor—shou

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Temporal controller issues

2021-01-02 Thread Cory Albrecht
> Let's try to stay positive. NTC is still young, and rapidly evolving. It is hard to keep up with all (possible) use cases. I didn't say all possible use cases though. Basic tools—like identify, select, and the vertex editor—should not break when one adds a new feature as they are commonly used t

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Temporal controller issues

2021-01-02 Thread Richard Duivenvoorde
On 1/2/21 1:17 AM, Cory Albrecht wrote: > Can somebody help me under the basics of how things work inside QGIS starting > from when it loads all the features for a layer through the steps, and then  > finally drawing them on the map canvas, specifically with respect to the new > temporal controll

[QGIS-Developer] Temporal controller issues

2021-01-01 Thread Cory Albrecht
Can somebody help me under the basics of how things work inside QGIS starting from when it loads all the features for a layer through the steps, and then finally drawing them on the map canvas, specifically with respect to the new temporal controller (NTC)? The issues caused by the NTC have been v