qgib
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12 years ago Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)
- operating_system was changed from All to
- subject was changed from QGis Open layer and raster dialogs should display all the filters for OGR/GDAL (well) managed files. to Update format list in the "Add raster layer" dialog
- fixed_version_id was changed from Version 1.8.0 to Version 2.0.0
Author Name: Médéric RIBREUX (Médéric RIBREUX) Original Redmine Issue: 6205 Affected QGIS version: 1.8.0 Redmine category:gui
Hello,
QGis 1.8 release is built with GDAL 1.9.1. This version of the library can handle lots of new file formats as you can read on "the release page":http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.9.0-News . The main problem is that those file formats are not listed on the filters shown to the user who wants to open a new layer or raster. To open those files formats, you have to select the "All files" filter which is a behavior not so natural: users generaly believe that they can open a file only if the format is listed in the open dialog filter list.
I've tested the following file formats and they are working pretty well under QGis:
I believe this is a bug and not a feature because it seems that QGis can open all of the new formats that OGR can open: it is only a user dialog problem.
For the next release, if QGis is built with the 2.0 version of GDAL, you could also add ODS (Open/LibreOffice file format for spreadsheet) in the filters.