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Feature wish list
davekong edited this page Feb 17, 2011
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Put your wish list items here:
- Implement favorites
- Support for postgis
- Support for more data types (TXT, PDF, etc)
- Theme catalog tree
- Drag to add a theme
- Drag from theme tree to qgis/other apps
- Custom icons by data type
- Restructure the directories tree to be a unified tree rather than three tabs.
- Cleaner, easier to follow source code (Conform code to PEP8 ?)
- A bunch of features provided by ArcCatalog
- ArcCatalog is the main competitor of an application like this as far as a I know, so if we want people to switch over, we should make it easier for them.
- ArcCatalog has plenty of good ideas, why spin our wheels coming up with our own. Take what is good and change what is not.
- TODO: make a list of all the features that are good to have.
(Created by davekong from Brian's email because davekong likes the ideas.)
- move files
- rename files
- delete files
- copy files
- File geodatabase support (it can be on the list even if its not possible yet)
- MrSID
- Text (.txt extension) files, they often ride along with data and give useful information. At least list them, if not view them. Double click to open in a text browser?
- PDF files - same thing. Allow listing and viewing even if geopdf's are not handled
- Create a man page
- What else?
- date ranges
- search metadata
- i suppose that was where you were going with themes too?
- Some way to show usage restrictions (and filter on them) would be great, for example I have data from Linn County that is only for use by Linn County firefighters, yet I'd like to keep it in the same warehouse as all the other GIS data, for ease of maintenance and backups etc.
- allow user to disable preview
- instead of generating a preview on the fly, allow a background task to generate thumbnail previews
- allow inserting a preview thumbnail manually
- generate preview on a separate thread so it does not lock up the browser while it's being generated
- allow interrupting painting of the preview
- take features from Digikam
- make 10x better than ArcCatalog (paraphrase :) )
- Not like ArcSDE
- Versioning (via PostGIS?)
- Move the preview controls to the top of the preview panel.
- Show scale and position on the preview panel frame
- Pan operations should not always cause a repaint (when full extent of layer is visible moving the cached image should be enough)
- Allow sorting the directory listing by clicking on the column header
- Treat folders as raster catalogs. Assemble the preview image area into a grid of the thumbnails.
- Show spatial coverage and allow spatial selection (GeoNetwork has this)