[Feat] Clarify what Remove/Rename/... in Display tab does

[wenzeslaus]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When you right click on a layer/item in the Display tab, you get:

• Remove
• Rename
• Change opacity level
• Properties

Remove asks you if you want to remove map layer(s) ... from the layer tree, but that message not needed since it is not a big deal when it is not actually deleting any data. However, you need to click on it too see what kind of remove that is.

Rename lets you edit the label of the item in the list, but that's not clear anywhere.

My guess is also that Remove and Rename are not as used as Properties, but Properties are further in the menu than Remove and Rename.

Describe the solution you'd like

Here are the changes which I think address the above issues and some more changes of related items:

• Remove the question for the Remove item
• Change Remove to Remove from layer list.
• Change Rename to Change label in layer list.
• Rename Change opacity level to simpler Change opacity.
• Maybe, put Properties first and Change opacity second (instead of Remove/Rename).
• Maybe, change Properties to something else to clarify it is about display.

Resulting menu (first 4 items):

• Properties
• Change opacity
• Remove from layer list
• Change label in layer list

Describe alternatives you've considered There is many different ways how to label the items. Feel free to suggest/implement different ones.

Additional context Now we have the prominent Data tab where Delete actually removes the data from disk, but just relying on some remove/delete distinction which some users may catch and some may not is not enough. Highlighting the differences and the fact that these are in really two different actions sounds like a good step.

[veroandreo]

I like the proposed alternative, i.e. the re-ordering of items and the elimination of the question for the actual removal.

I would keep Properties just as properties (no further clarification is needed in my opinion). I think that's pretty clear and behaves similarly to other GIS.

Remove from layer list could be Remove layer from list maybe, but not strong opinion. Also in this case, other GIS use remove. In any case, I'd better highlight that Delete actually removes the file from the mapset, i.e., it is an irreversible action.

I'm not so sure about Change label in layer list. The use of the word label there seems confusing to me. Again, other GIS also use rename. In this case however, we have a rename that actually changes de the name of the file in the mapset and a rename that changes the display name in the list. What about Change display name or so?

[neteler]

So, a blend of Vaclav's and Vero's suggestions might be:

Resulting menu (first 4 items):

• Properties
• Change opacity
• Remove layer from list
• Rename layer in list