[Qgis-developer] Re: ideas for developpers (The Plugins menu)

[Carson Farmer]

Borys Jurgiel wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
> I guess it's my first post on this group, but (unfortunately;) ) some of you 
> know me from the QGis-users list. 
>
>   
>> Wouldn't it be interesting to organize (at least a little) the plugin menu?
>> mine begins to be very... large !
>>     
>
> I've started to write a simple plugin which helps to organize python plugins 
> (by modyfying their codes) in menus and toolboxes. However, such 
> personalization is not the way. I agree, we should elaborate the rules for 
> plugin developers.
>
> In these days I'm working on a few plugins for creating profiles, table 
> management and various conversions (just a frontend for GDAL) and I have big 
> troubles, where to locate them all. ;) So probably I'll decide to add three 
> submenus: "Profiles", "Tables" and "Conversions". The mess will be bigger. 
> Also the plugin toolbox should be disintegrated, but not without relation to 
> the menu structure.
>
> I suppose a few standard submenus with separate toolboxes are necessary.
>
>   
>> * 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
>>     
>
> I guess you mean the Plugin Installer, not Manager, however this would be a 
> great improvement. Is somewhere here the Author (Matthew Perry)? ;) In the 
> future, the Installer might be included to the Manager.
>   
This functionality would be relatively easy to add, especially to the 
plugin installer. I have something similar with manageR now, which 
checks if the user has the latest version installed.
When loading the list of plugins from the repository, all the installer 
would have to do is check which plugins are installed in the plugins 
directory, and if they match one of the plugins in the repository, check 
that they are the same version.

C
> Cheers,
> Borys
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