Checkbox "Control feature rendering order" is not honored

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Author Name: Sebastian Dietrich (Sebastian Dietrich)
Original Redmine Issue: 14323
Affected QGIS version: master
Redmine category:symbology

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The checkbox Control feature rendering order implies the user can enable or disable the sorting by the order-by-clause shown next to it. However the order-by-clause is used regardless of the status of this checkbox.

Reproduce:

• Check the checkbox
• Define an order by clause
• Uncheck the checkbox
• Apply the changes
• -> Rendering order is controlled by the order-by-clause

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Author Name: Nyall Dawson (@nyalldawson)

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I agree that this is bad UX. It's often desirable to be able to temporarily enable/disable features like sorting without losing the sorting expression.

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Author Name: Sebastian Dietrich (Sebastian Dietrich)

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I agree that this is bad UX.

It is even worse. Note that I had to change the subject and description because the checkbox is completely ignored. Only the order-by-clause determines the rendering order, regardless of the checked-state of the checkbox.

I raised the priority to Blocker because I think a new feature must not come with such a misleading UI.

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• priority_id was changed from Normal to High
• subject was changed from Checkbox "Control feature rendering order" is checked without user interaction to Checkbox "Control feature rendering order" is not honored

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Author Name: Sebastian Dietrich (Sebastian Dietrich)

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• priority_id was changed from High to Severe/Regression

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Author Name: Sebastian Dietrich (Sebastian Dietrich)

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See "PR 2809":#2809 for a solution. It is just a quick fix replacing the checkbox with a label and should act as a fall-back plan in case no better solution can be implemented before the upcoming release (7 days from now).

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• pull_request_patch_supplied was changed from 0 to 1

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Author Name: Nyall Dawson (@nyalldawson)

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Fixed in changeset "4285d70b6c85b4600cf3f0e55a8408447272180c".

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• status_id was changed from Open to Closed