[QGIS Commit] r15871 - docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide

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Author: bogzab
Date: 2011-05-17 12:54:25 -0700 (Tue, 17 May 2011)
New Revision: 15871

Modified:
   docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/plugins.tex
Log:
Added 2 short paras to External Plugins Section, describing scope of plugins available

Modified: docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/plugins.tex
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--- docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/plugins.tex	2011-05-12 09:16:43 UTC (rev 15870)
+++ docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/plugins.tex	2011-05-17 19:54:25 UTC (rev 15871)
@@ -84,6 +84,19 @@
 the QGIS sources, and are automatically loaded and enabled inside the QGIS 
 Plugin Manager (see Section~\ref{sec:load_external_plugin}).}
 
+Currently (at the time of testing version 1.7 of QGIS) there are over 100 external 
+plugins available from thirteen listed repositories. Some of these plugins offer
+functionality that will be required by many users (for example : providing the user 
+with the ability to view and edit Open Street Map data, or to add Google Map layers)
+while others offer very specialised functions (for example : Calculate economic pipe diameters
+for water supply networks).
+
+It is, however, quite straightforward to search through all the available external plugins
+by providing keywords, choosing a named repository and/or filtering on the status of plugins 
+(currently installed or uninstalled in your system). Searching and filtering is done from the 
+QGIS Plugin Manager (see Section~\ref{sec:load_external_plugin}).
+
+
 \begin{Tip} \caption{\textsc{Add more repositories}}
 To add the 'User contributed' repository and/or several external author repositories, open the
 Plugin Installer (\mainmenuopt{Plugins} \arrow \dropmenuopttwo{plugin_installer}{Fetch Python Plugins...}),