[Qgis-developer] Re: [SoC] SoC Report: Homerange analyses with QGIS

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

One thing I noticed with plugins with 'about' menu optiond is they
they tend to leave these behind as orphans if you disable the plugin
using plugin manager.

Something to consider in your homerange implementation any way....

regards

Tim

On 7/19/08, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> 2008/7/18 Anne Ghisla <a.ghisla at studenti.uninsubria.it>:
>
>>
>> I'm also thinking about documentation. What format is required to
>> document Python plugins? Is there a template?
>>
>> I don't think many python plugins have any documentation beyond the
>> 'about'
> text!
>
> Qgis' own documentation (from Help... Help Contents) is just some html in
> the Qgis doc folder. What we could do is standardize on something like that
> for plugins - have a doc folder in each plugin with an index.html file and
> then whatever other documentation can be put and linked from there.
>
> Carson Farmer's ftools plugin has an 'About' menu option that gives a dialog
> with a 'Web' button that heads off to the internet to get the documentation
> for fTools. This could be easily modified to get the documentation from
> $MYPLUGINDIR/doc to avoid relying on a network connection.
>
> Barry
>

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