[QGIS Commit] r10661 - in docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide: . images
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Sun Apr 26 19:48:36 EDT 2009
Author: cfarmer
Date: 2009-04-26 19:48:36 -0400 (Sun, 26 Apr 2009)
New Revision: 10661
Added:
docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/images/plugin_installer.png
Modified:
docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/external_plugins.tex
docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/images/Makefile
Log:
cleanup and update external plugins section. gives short description of 'official', 'user-contributed',
and 'external' repositories. adds plugin installer to list of 'official' plugins
Modified: docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/external_plugins.tex
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--- docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/external_plugins.tex 2009-04-26 23:39:56 UTC (rev 10660)
+++ docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/external_plugins.tex 2009-04-26 23:48:36 UTC (rev 10661)
@@ -6,60 +6,53 @@
% comment out the following line:
% \updatedisclaimer
-External QGIS plugins are written in python. They are stored in
-an official, moderated repository and maintained by the individual
-author. Table \ref{tab:external_plugins} shows a list of plugins
-currently available with a short description.\footnote{Also updates of
-core plugins may be available in this repository as external overlays.}
-\footnote{The Python Plugin Installer is also an external Python Plugin, but
-it is part of the QGIS sources and automatically loaded and selectable inside
+External QGIS plugins are written in Python. They are stored in either
+the 'Official' or 'User contributed' QGIS Repostories, or in various other external
+repositories maintained by individual authors.
+Table \ref{tab:external_plugins} shows a list of curently available 'Official'
+plugins, with a short description.
+Detailed documentation about the usage, minimum QGIS version, homepage, authors,
+and other important information are provided with the external plugins themselves
+and is not included in this manual.
+\footnote{Updates of core plugins may be
+available in this repository as external overlays.}
+\footnote{Both fTools, and the Python Plugin Installer are external Python plugins,
+but they are also part of the QGIS sources, and are automatically loaded and enabled inside
the QGIS Plugin Manager (see Section~\ref{sec:load_external_plugin}).}
-When this manual was released, the external moderated QGIS plugin repository
-was not fully established. A detailed documentation about the usage, the
-author and other important information are provided with the external plugin
-itself and is not part of this manual.
+You will find an up-to-date list of 'Official' plugins in the Official QGIS
+Repository at \url{http://qgis.osgeo.org/download/plugins.html}. This list is also available
+automatically from the \filename{Plugins installer} via \dropmenuopttwo{plugin_installer}{Fetch Python
+Plugins...}.
-You find an up-to-date list of moderated external plugins in the QGIS
-Official Repository of the \dropmenuopttwo{plugin_installer}{Fetch Python
-Plugins...}) and at \url{http://qgis.osgeo.org/download/plugins.html}.
-
\begin{table}[H]
\centering
\caption{Current moderated external QGIS Plugins}\label{tab:external_plugins}\medskip
\small
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|p{4in}|}
-\hline \textbf{Icon} & \textbf{external Plugin} & \textbf{Description}\\
+\hline \textbf{Icon} & \textbf{External plugin} & \textbf{Description}\\
\hline
\includegraphics[width=0.7cm]{zoom2point_icon}
& Zoom To Point \index{plugins!Zoom To Point} & Zooms to a coordinate
specified in the input dialog. You can specify the zoom level as well to
control the view extent.\\
\hline
+\includegraphics[width=0.7cm]{plugin_installer}
+ & Plugin Installer \index{plugins!Plugin Installer} & The most recent Python Plugin Installer.\\
+\hline
+
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
-A detailed install description for external python plugins can be found in
+A detailed description of the installation procedure for external python plugins can be found in
Section \ref{sec:load_external_plugin}.
-\minisec{User-Contributed Python Plugin Repository and author repositories}
-
-Apart from the moderated external plugins there exists another unofficial
-Python Plugin repository. It contains plugins that are not yet mature
-enough to include them to the official repository, however some of them
-can be quite useful. Furthermore a few of our contributors maintain
-their own repositories.
-
-To add the unofficial repository and the author repositories open the
+\begin{Tip} \caption{\textsc{Add more repositories}}
+\qgistip{To add the 'User contributed' repository and/or several external author repositories, open the
Plugin Installer (\mainmenuopt{Plugins} > \dropmenuopttwo{plugin_installer}{Fetch Python Plugins...}),
-go to the \tab{Repositories} tab and click the \button{Add 3rd party repositories}
-button. If you don't want one or more of the added repositories, disable it with the
-\button{Edit...} button or completely remove with the \button{Delete} button.
-
-\begin{Tip} \caption{\textsc{Add more external Plugins}}
-\qgistip{Apart from the official QGIS plugin repository you can add
-more external repositories. Therefore select the Repositories tab in
-the Python Plugins Installer
+go to the \tab{Repositories} tab, and click \button{Add 3rd party repositories}.
+If you do not want one or more of the added repositories, they can be disabled via the
+\button{Edit...} button, or completely removed with the \button{Delete} button.
}
\end{Tip}
Modified: docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/images/Makefile
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--- docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/images/Makefile 2009-04-26 23:39:56 UTC (rev 10660)
+++ docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/images/Makefile 2009-04-26 23:48:36 UTC (rev 10661)
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@
mActionRaiseItems.eps \
mActionMoveItemsToBottom.eps \
zoom2point_icon.eps\
+ plugin_installer.eps\
##### TARGETS #####
Added: docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/images/plugin_installer.png
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