Opened 14 years ago
#3130 new bug
Internal SVG resources not selectable on OS X
| Reported by: | kyngchaos | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Priority: | major: does not work as expected | Milestone: | Version 1.7.0 |
| Component: | Symbology | Version: | Trunk |
| Keywords: | svg | Cc: | |
| Must Fix for Release: | No | Platform: | OS X |
| Platform Version: | Awaiting user input: | no |
Description
When asked to choose an SVG file for symbology (one place I ran into this, there may be others), it's a normal file chooser. On OS X, you cannot navigate into an application package, so it's not possible to select any of the builtin SVG files.
One nice solution would be to show a list of builtin SVG to choose from. Since there are a lot, and organized in subfolders, a menu would be cumbersome. A list box, hierarchically organized, would be better. Even better, disclosure triangles to collapse/expand folders. Of course, it would need an option to choose an external user file.
If that's not possible or practical, I'll have to change the install process to install the SVG externally in /Library/Application Support (or similar in a users home). This would then require an installer for packaging QGIS for distribution (no drag-n-drop install).
