QGIS Browser and interface customization
Those interested in QGIS development are probably aware that at the last developers’ meeting, among other things, Martin Dobias and Radim Blazek presented the QGIS FileBrowser application for data management.
QGIS FileBrowser is based on the QGIS libraries. It supports the same vector and raster formats as QGIS and can also work with WMS servers (information about connections is taken from QGIS settings). The functionality is still quite poor, right now you can:
- navigate through the file system or through the WMS server layers
- preview data on a map, view attribute tables and metadata
- manage WMS connections
- create new shapefiles
- set CRS for a shapefile
The source code of the application is available in the QGIS repository, in the browser-and-customization branch.
This branch also contains Martin and Radim’s work on a QGIS interface customisation tool. The new dialogue allows you to hide unnecessary widgets and save these settings to a file for use on other machines.
Not only can you hide individual buttons on toolbars and toolbars themselves, but literally anything can be customised. For example, you can remove menu items, hide individual tabs, or dialogue controls.