Metadata should be saved in the style as well

[qgib]

Author Name: Paolo Cavallini (@pcav)
Original Redmine Issue: 11248
Affected QGIS version: 3.0.0
Redmine category:symbology

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User-input metadata (Title, abstract, etc.) are saved in the project only. IMHO they should be saved in the style as well, to make them portable along with the layer.

[qgib]

Author Name: Matthias Kuhn (@m-kuhn)

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We should consider renaming style to "layer definition".
I see the benefit of portable layer information but it doesn't fit to the term style for me.

[qgib]

Author Name: Paolo Cavallini (@pcav)

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Agreed fully.

[qgib]

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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

[qgib]

Author Name: Michael Douchin (@mdouchin)

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Indeed, these information are saved in exported QLR, but not in exported QML. They should, regardless of the "style" vocabulary used inside QGIS to speak about "layer configurations".

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• version was changed from 2.4.0 to 2.18.13

[qgib]

Author Name: Paolo Cavallini (@pcav)

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Still true for QGIS 3.

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• category_id was changed from Vectors to Symbology
• version was changed from 2.18.13 to 3.0.0

[AlisterH]

Author Name: Michael Douchin (@mdouchin)

Indeed, these information are saved in exported QLR, but not in exported QML. They should, regardless of the "style" vocabulary used inside QGIS to speak about "layer configurations".

I don't think so, isn't that what .qmd is for?

I suggest that this ticket can be closed, noting that it was originally filed before .qmd was implemented.

[alexbruy]

Should be closed? We already have *.qmd for metadata.

[m-kuhn]

We have a very fine control over what to export to / import from qml. I could very well see metadata fit into another category in there and would prefer that over separate files per category.