Please reomve the not functional OWS group from the QGIS browser

[qgib]

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)
Original Redmine Issue: 16942
Affected QGIS version: 3.3(master)
Redmine category:browser

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Possibly also affects WFS and WCS.

The connection names show, they do not expand to show layers.

Tested with Geoserver, Mapserver and QGIS Server.

I believe is a regression.

[qgib]

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• description was changed from Possibly also affects WFS and WCS.

Tested with Geoserver, Mapserver and QGIS Server.

I believe is a regression. to Possibly also affects WFS and WCS.

The connection names show, they do not expand to show layers.

Tested with Geoserver, Mapserver and QGIS Server.

I believe is a regression.

• subject was changed from WMS connection do not show in the OWS group of the QGIS browser to WMS layers do not show in the OWS group of the QGIS browser

[qgib]

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Affects also master... can't we just get rid of "OWS" in browser?

[qgib]

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• version was changed from 2.18.11 to 3.3(master)
• subject was changed from WMS layers do not show in the OWS group of the QGIS browser to WMS/WFS layers do not show in the OWS group of the QGIS browser

[qgib]

Author Name: Alessandro Pasotti (@elpaso)

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Honestly I've never found a use case for that OWS node. But apparently there was one, IIRC some years ago Marco Hugentobler was talking about it but I can't remember what it was.

[gioman]

@elpaso moreover if there are >1 connections with the same name (i.e. 1 wfs and 1 wms) then under OWS shows only one.

It is anyway completely broken (layers do not show, contextual menu on connections does nothing), I would suggest remove this thing from the Browser.

[nyalldawson]

I agree - I don't see any good reason for the OWS group to exist