[Qgis-developer] Re: ideas for developpers)

[Martin Dobias]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Borys Jurgiel <borys at wolf.most.org.pl> wrote:
>> In fact, this is something that I have in my head for some time
>> already: to connect plugin installer with plugin manager. In fact it's
>> not really hard and I'm willing to do that, so far I just don't have
>> the concept how this should be done. But e.g. extension manager in
>> firefox3 looks like a good inspiration: divided into two tabs: one for
>> management of installed plugins (enable/disable, uninstall), other for
>> searching and installing new plugins.
>>
>> I have also thought about rewriting plugin installer in C++ to include
>> it directly in QGIS, but it would have some drawbacks (like absence of
>> zip decompression in Qt) and would add a lot of unneccessary work. So
>> binding the installer to plugin manager looks like a way to go - for
>> start we can just put a button "plugin installer" to the plugin
>> manager dialog.
>
> Ok, so I'll implement all the installing/uninstalling/upgrading and notifying
> stuff in the Installer. It should be easy and quick.

Fine, looking forward to hear from you soon :-)

> I'm afraid the categorisation must wait, as we don't manage befre 0.11
> freeze - however we still can (and should) to elaborate some rules for plugin
> developers, as standard category names and one location for all plugins in
> QSettings.

Yes the categorization can wait. But those rules for plugin developers
can be created and define some standard categories. Then it's just a
matter of bugging the plugin devs to update the plugins to meet the
rules :)

Martin