[Qgis-user] color ramp plugin broken ?

Etienne Tourigny etourigny.dev at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 04:55:14 PDT 2012


On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Andre Joost <andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
> Am 23.09.2012 21:53, schrieb Etienne Tourigny:
>
>
>> I haven't made any docs yet, I though it was straight-forward to use,
>> but I guess not.
>
>
>
> As a software user, I can tell you that this almost never works ;-)
>
>
>>
>> First you select the package you want
>>
>> -  Use gradients that ship with qgis ->  uses the minimal selection
>> laready present
>> -  QGis selection ->  free to distribute selection, about 800 gradients
>> - Full cpt-city selection ->  all gradients,(about 6000)
>>
>> Next you select the installation folder - if you are the only user,
>> you can select your profile folder $HOME/.qgis
>>
>> Then you click Update, package is downloaded and installed.
>>
>> Go to the style manager->Color ramps and add a new ramp "cpt-city",
>> you can browse by selection of by author.
>>
>> Every 7 days the plugin looks for updates, and you can manually check
>> by clicking update. But this shouldn't happen too often.
>
>
> You should add that it looks for updates of the color ramps, not updates of
> the plugin itself ;-)

the plugin manager does that, but I see what you mean!

>
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>> There ya go!
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>
> What about a little help button at the bottom with this information?

Will do.  cheers

>
> Greetings,
> André Joost
>
>
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