Create a unified "Add Data" dialog

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Author Name: Jonathan Moules (Jonathan Moules)
Original Redmine Issue: 9451

Redmine category:gui

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Create a unified "Add Data" dialog that can be used for any data source. This will significantly improve user experience by creating consistency when adding data of different types.

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Related issue(s): #10832 (duplicates)
Redmine related issue(s): 773

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Author Name: Martin Dobias (@wonder-sk)

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There's also an old ticket #10832 for the same thing

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Author Name: Matthias Kuhn (@m-kuhn)

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Do we have any mockups for this?

What would be the difference of this in comparison to the browser?

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Author Name: Nathan Woodrow (@NathanW2)

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I have some early mockups that I did a while ago. I'll see if I can dig them up.

Maybe we need to increase the features in the browser and do away with the idea of a open layer dialog. Because 1) I really don't like dialog boxes 2) why have two different ways to open data.

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Author Name: Paolo Cavallini (@pcav)

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I'd vote for removing the add layer dialog, after having added all the missing functions to the browser.

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Author Name: Jonathan Moules (Jonathan Moules)

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To be entirely honest I wasn't really even aware that the Browser had this functionality. Looking at it now it's quite cool.

That said, it has its own set of issues (I'll open applicable tickets). More fundamentally - it doesn't seem to be possible to set data-source specific settings when adding data in this way (or maybe I'm missing it - quite possible!).

I think having both a dialog and a browser as the way to go.

On the issue of mockups - http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Consistency-in-adding-layers-especially-OGC-td5100402.html - "A Huarte" - linked to a video with one possible option.

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Author Name: Etienne Tourigny (@etiennesky)

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You should link here the new issues you created (as "Related issues")

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Author Name: Jonathan Moules (Jonathan Moules)

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Etienne Tourigny wrote:

You should link here the new issues you created (as "Related issues")

They didn't seem pertinent as they're about the Browser rather than this dialog. Also I don't seem to be able to set "Related issues" - I don't have whatever permissions are required (that or it's a well hidden button).

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Author Name: shenriod - (shenriod -)

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Not sure if there is a chance / wish to re-activate this topic? The question has been mentioned in the mailing list recently: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2017-April/047954.html

Also, there is a quick-solution that has been developped by Anita Graser here: https://anitagraser.com/2016/07/20/one-add-button-to-rule-them-all/​ Can it somehow be integrated into core? Or would it need substantial development that would require funding?

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Author Name: Anita Graser (@anitagraser)

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See also UX discussion on qgis/qgis3_UIX_discussion#1

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Author Name: shenriod - (shenriod -)

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A Gdoc has been created here to collect ideas on how to implement this idea: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aMX9jOfl10q8oETRzOHSHnRpHCc7UJ1dDnCCq3VyTAY/edit?usp=sharing

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• easy_fix was configured as 0

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Author Name: Nyall Dawson (@nyalldawson)

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• status_id was changed from Open to Closed

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• resolution was changed from to fixed/implemented