Opened 14 years ago

Last modified 13 years ago

#2666 new enhancement

Improve the select

Reported by: pinux Owned by: nobody
Priority: major: does not work as expected Milestone: Version 1.7.0
Component: GUI Version: Trunk
Keywords: Cc: mwtoews
Must Fix for Release: No Platform: All
Platform Version: Awaiting user input: no

Description (last modified by pcav)

I think that one of the major function in a gis software are the select tools.In general Qgis does a good job, but there are some things that can be changed to make it better (in my opinion). Here is a list of suggestion of things that I think would be ...:

  1. Some type of select tools are missing (see the python plug-in select plus) like Select all, Select none, Invert selection (that is available in the attribute manager), Select polygon, Select by freehand, The search query builder, etc.
  1. There should be a Select menu with all the select tools
  1. There should be a select toolbar with all the select tools
  1. The spatial query plug-in see patch #2634 could be integrated in the menu and toolbar
  1. A search manager where the searches with the search query builder can be stored.

I don't know if this enhancement fits better with the the milestone 2.0 or 1.5 so be free to change it to 2.0 if you think so.

Change History (7)

comment:1 by pcav, 14 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Milestone: Version 1.5.0Version 1.6.0

comment:2 by mwtoews, 14 years ago

Cc: mwtoews added

The scope of this bug might need to be split into a few separate tickets, but I completely agree that the ideas in this are important enhancements. That said, I can think of three other related tickets: combo keys to add/subtract from current selection (like other graphics programs), select by circle/ellipse, and to show dimensions (if applicable) in lower-left status bar text (e.g., 20.213 m x 2.123 m).

My top request is for a Freehand select tool, e.g., draw an irregular polygon and select elements within the polygon selection. The current rectangular select tool is too simplified as a serious select tool, and I get a lot of flak regarding this tool's limitation from my peers. A new Freehand select tool can be added to a new "Select toolbox" idea proposed above (currently the select/deselect tools are part of the "Attributes" toolbox).

comment:3 by jhelebrant, 13 years ago

I would also vote for selection improvement. At least "Invert selection" would be very useful as sometimes is easier to select "what you do not want to select".

PS: freehand selection is very good idea :-)

comment:4 by lutra, 13 years ago

I believe all but 5) are already implemented features in qgis-dev. Please install it (under windows using osgeo4w, I can provide packages for Ubuntu 10.04) and leave further feedback.

in reply to:  4 ; comment:5 by jef, 13 years ago

Replying to lutra:

I believe all but 5) are already implemented features in qgis-dev. Please install it (under windows using osgeo4w, I can provide packages for Ubuntu 10.04) and leave further feedback.

No need for extra Ubuntu packages. We already provide nightly builds for Debian Lenny, Squeeze, Unstable and Ubuntu Lucid and Maverick on qgis.org (see http://qgis.org/wiki/Download).

in reply to:  5 ; comment:6 by lutra, 13 years ago

No need for extra Ubuntu packages. We already provide nightly builds for Debian Lenny, Squeeze, Unstable and Ubuntu Lucid and Maverick on qgis.org (see http://qgis.org/wiki/Download).

oh! how I did miss that!? ;) how long have been there the NB for debian/ubuntu?

in reply to:  6 comment:7 by jef, 13 years ago

Replying to lutra:

oh! how I did miss that!? ;) how long have been there the NB for debian/ubuntu?

I suppose Aug, 15th. http://www.qgis.org/qgiswiki/index.php?title=Download&diff=2600&oldid=2593

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