Bug report #17348
Right clicking layer in canvas causes zoom out to 1,000,000
| Status: | Feedback | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: | - | ||
| Category: | Map Canvas | ||
| Affected QGIS version: | master | Regression?: | No |
| Operating System: | Debian 9.1 | Easy fix?: | No |
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | fixed/implemented |
| Crashes QGIS or corrupts data: | No | Copied to github as #: | 25245 |
Description
In my project I am right clicking on the names of the layers in the layer list to view or change layer properties. When I do this, very often the zoom level on the canvas will suddenly go right out to over 1:1,000,000.
This is observed with the master 6297d19 but not with earlier ones such as 313ec55.
History
#1
Updated by Patrick Dunford about 7 years ago
I see that the first option on a right click menu for a layer is "Zoom to layer".
This issue is possibly related therefore to the general limitations that I have noticed working in Linux with things that get clicked accidentally much more often than in Windows. There seems to be some inherent limitation on the versions of Linux I have used (mostly running xfce) with things that are too easy to click by mistake. But is this an operating system issue or an application issue.
The problem is the right click menu appears right where the mouse pointer is and because of this issue with it being so easy to accidentally click the first item on the menu, this zoom to layer is getting clicked without intending to a lot of the time.
#2
Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 7 years ago
- Resolution set to fixed/implemented
- Status changed from Open to Closed
I don't think we ca handle also idiosyncrasies of each OS :)
#3
Updated by Patrick Dunford about 7 years ago
- File qgis2.mp4 added
I have tested this further and believe it is a real issue in the Linux edition of Qgis. when right clicking a layer the right click menu often comes up with the first item on the menu selected by default then it is extremely easy (because of limitations in the GUI) for this item to be clicked mistakenly. The attached video shows how fast this can happen (at about 8 seconds in)
#4
Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 7 years ago
Patrick Dunford wrote:
I have tested this further and believe it is a real issue in the Linux edition of Qgis. when right clicking a layer the right click menu often comes up with the first item on the menu selected by default then it is extremely easy (because of limitations in the GUI) for this item to be clicked mistakenly. The attached video shows how fast this can happen (at about 8 seconds in)
I use QGIS daily on KDE, Mate and Unity on different machines and can't see this happen.
#5
Updated by Patrick Dunford about 7 years ago
OK
my computer isn't doing it now, it was doing it yesterday when I was able to capture the video clip
so some weird bug in something that just pops up randomly.
#6
Updated by Patrick Dunford about 7 years ago
- Status changed from Closed to Reopened
So this really is an issue. Qgis is the only software on my computer that I have this shortcut (or right click) menu problem with. It is actually not that hard to accidentally right click the first item in the menu which is zoom to layer as I have done it many, many times.
There are lots of possible solutions, like for example: remove the top menu item, or rearrange the menu items and make the first one an item that has a submenu
#7
Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 6 years ago
- Status changed from Reopened to Feedback
Please check if this issue is still valid on QGIS 3.4.5 or 3.6.