This is necessary in order to be able to correctly translate between absolute and relative paths
deeper in the code - e.g. paths to SVG files used in marker or fill symbols.
Until now, relative paths were translated to absolute paths on the fly.
This is now changed - paths to files should be always absolute within QGIS objects - and paths
only get turned into relative when saving projects. When loading a project, relative paths
are translated to absolute paths immediately.
This should lower the overall confusion about relative/absolute paths within QGIS, and also
allow having different base directories for relative paths (e.g. QML or QPT files may use relative paths
to their directory - rather than to the project directory)
The order of the elements is irrelevant and duplicate elements are unwanted. It
is therefore a perfect candidate for a set instead of a list. This prevents
filtering for duplicates manually be replacing some filer codes with (more
performant) builtin methods of QSet.
Using this renderer no symbol will be drawn for features, but labeling,
diagrams and other non-symbol parts will still be shown.
Selections can still be made on the layer in the canvas and selected
features will be rendered with a default symbol. Features being edited
will also be shown.
This is intended as a handy shortcut for layers which you only want
to show labels or diagrams for, and avoids the need to render
symbols with totally transparent fill/border to achieve this.
(fix#12131)
