#3520: colorize vector layers in GUI by default
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Reporter: martinl | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.6.0
Component: wxGUI | Version: unspecified
Resolution: | Keywords: vector, colors
CPU: Unspecified | Platform: Unspecified
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Comment (by martinl):
Currently this option is disabled. For next main release 7.6 I would
suggest to enable it by default. Reasons:
* all vector maps displayed in black feature and grey area fill color
* most of users perform colorization after adding new layers to map
display
* colorization based on categories does not really influence display speed
so much, simple test below
#3520: colorize vector layers in GUI by default
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Reporter: martinl | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.6.0
Component: wxGUI | Version: unspecified
Resolution: | Keywords: vector, colors
CPU: Unspecified | Platform: Unspecified
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Comment (by wenzeslaus):
I agree that the current default is not ideal. Preferred behavior probably
depends on the use case, but `-c` as default is quite different from what
everybody else does (so potentially it is unexpected): loading each vector
layer to map display with different single color versus different color
for each feature in the vector map/layer. I think it is a great checkbox,
just not sure if it should be enabled by default.
#3520: colorize vector layers in GUI by default
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Reporter: martinl | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.6.0
Component: wxGUI | Version: unspecified
Resolution: | Keywords: vector, colors
CPU: Unspecified | Platform: Unspecified
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Comment (by martinl):
Replying to [comment:4 wenzeslaus]:
> I agree that the current default is not ideal. Preferred behavior
probably depends on the use case, but `-c` as default is quite different
from what everybody else does (so potentially it is unexpected): loading
each vector layer to map display with different single color versus
different color for each feature in the vector map/layer. I think it is a
great checkbox, just not sure if it should be enabled by default.
You are right, `-c` shouldn't be enabled by default. After some testing I
can say that it's messy in many cases (point layers for example). I am
leaving this ticket open in order to implement new GUI settings to
colorize map layers (not features) similarly as other software do.