[Qgis-developer] Plugins unification. Was: native file dialogs

[Marco Hugentobler]

+1 
Discussing plugin issues at the hackfest will be great. Hopefully we can 
assemble and write such a guideline document directly there.

I agree with Carson that it would be good to have a topic list for the 
hackfest.

So from what I understood, porting f-Tools to the analysis library is also 
intended. Other topics?

Regards,
Marco

Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 00.08:39 schrieb Carson Farmer:
> Borys  (et al.),
>
> These plugin issues were something that I was hoping to discuss at the
> upcoming hackfest...
> Perhaps we (the community) should come up with some (more) suggestions
> that we can
> discuss/finalize at the hackfest?
>
> Carson
>
> > Dne středa 07 října 2009 19:57:13 Paolo Cavallini napsal(a):
> >> John C. Tull ha scritto:
> >>> That would be great to get more ui consistency in the application. It
> >>> can be confusing at times with different types of dialogs popping up.
> >>
> >> Right. BTW, more consistency would also be good among plugins: not only
> >>  file dialogs, but adding to canvas, remembering last path etc. are
> >> often different. Would it be difficult to write guidelines and ask py
> >> devs to follow them? Thanks.
> >
> > You're abolutely right. Probably all we need is to choose the best
> > practice from all the existing already and adjust another plugins to this
> > one. So the most important points are:
> >
> > 1. Cleaning up the two possible behaviours:
> > -a plugin creates a new shapefile and asks for adding it to the canvas
> > -a plugin creates only a memory layer and adds it to the canvas
> >
> > 2. Choosing common Settings keys for storing last used:
> > - input directory,
> > - output directory,
> > - input encoding,
> > - output encoding (they should differ as one can often open
> > windows-encoded dbfs and want to save them in utf)
> > - postgres connection
> > - spatialite connection
> > - surely something more
> >
> > 3. Plugin categories and grouping in menus and toolbars (should be
> > discussed, especially integrating all the datasource plugins with the
> > native 'File' toolbar and the 'Layer' dropdown menu)
> >
> > 4. Some kind of unified look and feel of plugin dialogs.
> >
> > 5. What more?
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