Bug report #4100: Text for two CRS dialogues is wrong (swapped) - QGIS Application - QGIS Issue Tracking

Bug report #4100

Text for two CRS dialogues is wrong (swapped)

Added by Alister Hood over 13 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

Status:	Open
Priority:	Normal
Assignee:	-
Category:	GUI
Affected QGIS version:	3.6.0	Regression?:	No
Operating System:		Easy fix?:	No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:	No	Resolution:
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:	No	Copied to github as #:	14082

Description

Running trunk, when I have enabled "Settings>Options>CRS>Coordinate Reference System for new layers>Prompt for CRS", if I add a vector layer with no CRS then the dialogue says:
"Specify CRS for layer SOME_FILE_NAME"

When I right-click on a layer and choose "Set layer CRS", even if the layer does have a projection specification, the dialogue says:
"Define this layer's coordinate reference system:
This layer appears to have no projection specification. By default this layer will now have its projection set to that of the project, but you may override this by selecting a different projection below."

These two texts must have been mixed up.

History

#1 Updated by Paolo Cavallini about 13 years ago

Category set to Projection Support

#2 Updated by Alister Hood about 13 years ago

There is a similar issue for raster layers. In this case, the correct text ("This layer appears to have no...") is shown when adding a layer with no CRS, but the same text is incorrectly shown when right-clicking on a layer with a CRS and choosing "Set layer CRS".

#3 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 13 years ago

Target version set to Version 1.7.4

#4 Updated by Paolo Cavallini over 12 years ago

Target version changed from Version 1.7.4 to Version 1.8.0
Affected QGIS version set to master
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data set to No

#5 Updated by Paolo Cavallini about 12 years ago

Target version changed from Version 1.8.0 to Version 2.0.0

#6 Updated by Alister Hood about 12 years ago

Also,
It seems that people coming from ArcGIS tend to expect "Specify CRS" to do something completely different. Rather than QGIS treating the data as if it is in the specified CRS, they expect it to do on-the-fly coordinate transformation to the specified CRS, so that calculations etc using that layer are done as if the layer had been transformed to that CRS.

Because of this it might be worth adding to the "Specify CRS for layer SOME_FILE_NAME" an explanation something like "N.B. this means QGIS will treat the layer as if its original data is actually in the specified CRS. It does not transform the data to the specified CRS."

#7 Updated by Jürgen Fischer over 10 years ago

Target version changed from Version 2.0.0 to Future Release - Lower Priority

#8 Updated by Médéric RIBREUX almost 9 years ago

Tag set to easy

Hello, bug triage...

still true for QGIS 2.13.

to fix this, we need to:
- modify the default message in QgsGenericProjectionSelector::setMessage
- modify the code of QgisApp::validateSrs to add the previous generic message and also adding the validationHint words.

This should be an easy fix...