Display/layer name not saved in qml

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Author Name: andskog - (andskog -)
Original Redmine Issue: 7502
Affected QGIS version: master
Redmine category:project_loading/saving

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Layer Properties/Display, a custom Layer name is not saved to the QML file. (Same thing on two week old master.)

[qgib]

Author Name: Larry Shaffer (Larry Shaffer)

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Should it be?

If I loaded a .qml style, and it changed the current layer's name, I'd be kinda upset. Seems to me the layer's style should stay abstracted from the layer's base properties, like its custom (legend) name or data source URI.

Or, do you mean the custom name should be saved into the .qml just for reference, i.e. never (or maybe optionally) used when the style file is loaded?

There has recently been some discussion about offering a listing of what a style being loaded offers, with checkboxes that allow the user to choose which parts of the style to apply. I see the custom layer name as something that could then be saved to the .qml, and upon load be offered as a style option to apply, but unchecked by default.

[qgib]

Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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• category_id was configured as Project Loading/Saving

[qgib]

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• easy_fix was configured as 0
• regression was configured as 0

[qgib]

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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End of life notice: QGIS 2.18 LTR
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Source:*
http://blog.qgis.org/2019/03/09/end-of-life-notice-qgis-2-18-ltr/

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• resolution was changed from to end of life
• status_id was changed from Open to Closed