mapquestqgisqmlstyle
I have to create a map which is near at the MapQuest style, but for some reason I can't use a Lyer plugin, so I'd like to build the "Background" with files from geofabrik.
Are there qml styles (or other types of files which can be importet to qgis) on the internet, that I can download?
My apologies for the off-the-record answer. For me it seems you have found a bug :-)
I can reproduce your problem and did not find a solution/explanation for it...
Before ADDED INFORMATION
Strange, but I don't think it's a bug. In QGIS 2.4 I loaded a vector layer, applied a style by loading a .qml saved in QGIS 2.2, and there were no issues. I made a small change in the value map, saved it as a new .qml and loading it again went smoothly.
If you mention '... when I edit them', do you mean you select another color range from the dropdown menu? Because that's perfectly possible without losing your value-description settings. Just don't click 'Classify' because that will mess up your value map according to the classification mode you selected. But I guess you know all that...
Opening a .qml file in Notepad, you normally should see your value map at the top. Something like:
<ranges>
<range symbol="0" lower="0.000000" upper="12000.000000" label="No data"/>
<range symbol="1" lower="12000.000000" upper="16000.000000" label="12000 - 16000"/>
<range symbol="2" lower="16000.000000" upper="21000.000000" label="16000 - 21000"/>
<range symbol="3" lower="21000.000000" upper="25000.000000" label="21000 - 25000"/>
<range symbol="4" lower="25000.000000" upper="29000.000000" label="25000 - 29000"/>
</ranges>
After your comment, this will probably help you further.
IF I understand what you're doing, you try to edit the values map under the Fields tab, and there you find a column called 'Edit Widget'.
I did not dig out that functionality yet, but assuming you just want to apply a style on a vector layer (nice colors and dito labels), open the Properties window of the vector layer you like to apply a style on, and do as follows.
Check out that the name of the attribute/field (stored in the .qml file) corresponds with an existing attribute in the table of your vector layer. If not, just select from the dropdown menu the column/field/attribute you like to show in your map with your style (B). In the .qml file, you can find the attribute's name in the 3th line:
<renderer-v2 attr="FIELD_OF_INTEREST" symbollevels="1" type="graduatedSymbol">
If you're still happy with the style you loaded, fine! If not, edit the number of classes, choose a color ramp and a classification mode. If you're not satisfied with the lower and upper values of the generated classes, double-click in the area depicted with the red rectangle (C).
All done, you'll notice that the applied changes (color and value map) will appear as a legend.
import os
path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
Now path variable stores your path to the plugin directory which contains plugin.py:
>>> path
>>> "/home/[user]/.qgis2/python/plugins/[plugindirectory]"
Best Answer
Searching for "QGIS Style" on github.com reveals a few repos with some style files in. The best of all these is probably Anita Graser's styles and related blog post:
https://anitagraser.com/2014/05/31/a-guide-to-googlemaps-like-maps-with-osm-in-qgis/