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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Borys

Are you running trunk? I recently added filtering option to make it
easier to find stuff in the plugin manager. I have some more changes
planned, so before you do too much work, it may be good to collaborate
a bit. I would like to add a 'category' combo above the plugins list,
and was thinking to make an update to the plugin interface to allow
this. I think I can do this without impacting existing C++ plugins (by
putting a default category of 'undefined' into the plugin abstract
base class. However I'm unsure of the impacts this will have on the
pythonistas out there.

Anyway with the filtering stuff in place you can start tying a few
letters of the plugin you want in the filter box and it will shrink
the list down. The filter box supports regular expressions too.

Regards

Tim

2008/5/20 Carson Farmer <cfarmer at uvic.ca>:
>
>
> 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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