[Qgis-user] 300 plugins

[Blumentrath, Stefan]

Hi,

Several plugins already come with a more comprehensive description (in the plugin manager) of what the plugin does (e.g. Data Driven Input Mask plugin). For me personally, that would be enough information to start with (for details, trying the plugin is nevertheless almost inevitable in most cases).
I guess most of the plugins documented that way are "newer" ones (or at least with newer versions) which make use of the excellent, relatively new plugin manager interface and the corresponding options in metadata.txt.

Yet, there seem to be different ways to get that information into the plugin manager: the "about" section in metadata.txt which e.g EasyCustomLabeling plugin uses, but there must be also another way as the Data Driven Input Mask plugin does not have such an about section in the metadata.txt (but it has a description in the plugin manager).

As for the older "description" section in metadata.txt (which is printed in bold letters in the plugin manager) I noticed quite different usage among plugin-devs. Compare for example, "MultiEdit" and "New Memory Layer".

The best way to improve the situation might be to simply write an email to all plugin devs, inform them about the preferred policy regarding documentation and encourage them to update their plugins.

Just an idea...

Cheers
Stefan

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From: qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paolo Cavallini
Sent: 9. april 2014 18:06
To: Lene Fischer; qgis-user; GFOSS.it
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] 300 plugins

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Il 09/04/2014 09:32, Lene Fischer ha scritto:
> Hi Paolo,
> Yes it is a mailestone - All these plugins - Wonderful tools for free use!!! Thansk to all developers.
> I would only wish they were better descriped.
> Yesterday I took some time to read  the list, but most of the plugins are difficult to know how they work.
> I have to install - try- and uninstall.
> A few plugins has examples and video - brilliant!!
> Hope others developers will follow this trend.

Agreed - I think many users could contribute a description, it will be easy to add it afterwards.
All the best.
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Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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