opengisch
Refine geometry tools' behavior on singlepart point layers
What is the bug or the crash? What were your expectations and what actually happened?
Hello,
I would like to report an inconsistency regarding the availability and behavior of geometry tools when editing point layers in QField.
Steps to reproduce the issue
Tools such as “Modify Geometry” and “Rotate Feature” are currently accessible when working on point layers. However, these tools are not relevant for point geometries:
Rotation has no practical use on a single point. Modify geometry behaves unpredictably—as if QField is trying to apply polygon or line-editing logic to a point.
Suggestions:
Disable the “Rotate Feature” tool for point layers—since rotation has no effect on a single coordinate. Adapt the “Modify Geometry” tool for point layers so that it functions as a “Move Feature” tool, which I think is the only applicable form of geometry editing for points.
This change would make the editing interface more intuitive and reduce confusion or errors when editing point features in the field.
Thank you for your excellent work ! Bye
Version
6782e2
Operating system name
Android
Operating system version
9
Reinstall QField
- [x] I have a fresh install of the latest QField version, but the problem persists.
- [x] Problem can be reliably reproduced, doesn't happen randomly.
- [x] Problem happens with all files and projects, not only some files or projects.
Additional context
No response
@Ipickedausername , while the tools can appear to have little to no uses for point layers, they actually do. For e.g., rotating a multipart point is definitively a thing :)
As for refining the geometry editor to handle singlepart point layers, maybe yeah. It's something that's sitting in the list of possible improvements, but TBH it's not super high priority as it's technically not broken (e.g. for singlepart points, people can use the move feature action if they prefer that to a one vertex editing process :) ).
