Disabling Marble map shape for 2.4?

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

Ok for disabling shapes but I'd like to keep marble for kexi reports and forms.

On 17/03/2012, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can anybody seriously use the Marble/Map shape (both 2.4 and master)? I
> tried
> to use it, e.g. to create an invitation with the map to show how to reach
> the
> meeting point. But I find the shape not yet ready for prime time:
> * no (obvious?) way to remove the info boxes (compass, scalebar, ...)
> * zooming the view also changes the selection of what is shown in the shape
> * always crashes after a few editions of the map properties
> * UI in general is not really intuitive,
>
> Having that in this state in 2.4 might leave a bad impression to Calligra
> overall, as quite a few people might try this feature, as it makes a
> difference to similar software.
> And while the Marble shape is a nice example for the concept/power of
> shapes,
> the current experience shadows all the things which actually work nicely.
>
> So okay to commit the attached patch which simply disables the map shape
> from
> the build?
>
> I fear I will try to improve the map shape for 2.5, somebody actually
> already
> created a branch on my harddisk, oh dear... ;)
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich
>
> PS: What would be your usecases for the map shape? In slides, a document, a
> mindmap, ...? Which workflow would you expect, after you dropped the shape?
> Just that I do not only work on what I would like it to be :)
>
> PPS: Has there been any discussion about the future of the specific shape
> tool
> option widget vs. the KoShapeConfigWidgetBase approach? To me it is not
> quite
> clear which to use when. And at least with KoShapeConfigWidgetBase I already
> have an issue, but more on that another time.


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