Why does @qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy randomize the color of the layer when you load it? ArcGIS used to do this, too, right? Is it just a sort of hack to prevent the same color being used? But it's unpredictable. And weird. And jarring. Who decided it should happen this way?
The choice of random colour has been a problem for me - different shades of the same colour, and pastels that blend into common basemap colours. Seems like that happens often, but may just be confirmation bias. Have been meaning to dig into the program to check into it for a while.
If could benefit from even the slightest thought about how to design the experience it's so weird that it's just this way when you know it was some ESRI engineer putting it in offhand without even asking anyone and everyone has copied it since then forever.
I don't like this either..at least give me default colours or something!
Especially in the beginning as I'm fiddling with new shapefiles I hate that sometimes it's purple and sometimes it's blue like seriously just be blue for the first one and orange for the second and tableau palette on through and stop rolling a die every time I load some data QGIS ffs.
If you drop multiple layers into your #QGIS project and they all rendered with the same colour e.g. black, it would be hard to tell one layer from another.
Yes! So that's helpful, and plus I'm going to want to eventually choose my own colors anyway. Half the time I'm going to process and transform the loaded data into something else, so I don't really care what color it loads as, just as long as it's discernable from everything else!
Yes but they don't have to be random. It could walk through a list of colors rather than just pick any random RGB value.