SVG Fill symbol behavior does not seem consistent with other fill symbol layers

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Author Name: Harrissou Santanna (@DelazJ)
Original Redmine Issue: 16219
Affected QGIS version: 2.18.3
Redmine category:symbology

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Symbolize a polygon layer with the SVG Fill symbol layer type
Under the SVG Fill level, you have a line symbol which actually has nothing to do with the SVG fill symbol. It's all about the feature boundary symbolizing.
None of the other fill layer types (patterns fill, centroid fill, raster fill..) has this kind of configuration; the user actually needs to add a new row of symbol layer using the outline-based ones.
I think it'd be more consistent to not automatically add boundary symbol layer type.

Just a wonder: what's the difference between a "SVG Fill" and a "Point pattern fill" based on SVG marker symbol layer?

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Related issue(s): #16498 (relates)
Redmine related issue(s): 7556

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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

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Author Name: Mars Sjoden (Mars Sjoden)

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I was wondering the exact same thing. I always found it an odd quirk.

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Author Name: Harrissou Santanna (@DelazJ)

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• relates was configured as Symbol layers are a bit confusing #16498

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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