[Qgis-developer] Re: ideas for developpers

[Carson Farmer]

Sebastien Vial wrote:
>
> And now, some ideas :
> * for plugin developpers with time : (I'm a gis teacher, but with no 
> time and no python capacities... I'm trying to discover this 
> interesting programming language)
> - join by attribute : join all the objets with the same attributes 
> (the opposite of the split by attributes) ; used to merge some 
> polygons with the same value in a column attribute
I'll try to add this to fTools (see below)
> - simplify vector layer according to the scale ; there exists a python 
> script - in the gdal package for python- whose name is simplify.py 
> that does it... and a postgis script 
> http://www.bostongis.com/postgis_simplify.snippet
>
> * Wouldn't it be interesting to organize (at least a little) the 
> plugin menu ? mine begins to be very... large ! For exemple, we could 
> organize like
> - vector objects oriented plugins
> - database oriented plugins
> - raster oriented
> - import/export
> - selecting
> - statistics...
Most of my plugins (from the cfarmer repository) will soon be available 
as part of a single plugin menu (fTools) that gets added to the QGIS 
menu list (next to help). This should reduce the clutter on the plugins 
toolbar. Other than this, the above idea would certainly make it easier 
to find that plugins that you're looking for when you need them. This 
way users could (for example) opt to only have the 'vector based 
plugins' menu showing when working strictly with vector data.
>
> * and about the plugin manager : adding a column to know the installed 
> version of the plugin (like some linux package manager), in order to 
> compare the version number, and to know if the plugin needs to be 
> re-installed --- and perhaps a warning when there is a new version of 
> a plugin
This is also a good idea, and discussions regarding this and other 
aspects of plugin dependencies have been discussed on the qgis-developer 
list (See the comments from Barry Rowlingson and Volkan Kepoglu from 
around the 13th and 14th)

>
> Many thanks in advance !!
>
> I'm writing docs on qgis use (and the plugins !!)  for my students, 
> but there will be in FRENCH !!!
I would be interested in seeing these docs when you're done!

Cheers,

Carson
>
> Seb
>
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> Sébastien VIAL
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