[Qgis-developer] organizing plugins

[Micha Silver]

On 28/04/2010 17:34, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>> I'd like to throw in my $0.02 worth. One of the attractions of QGIS
>> compared to most other offerings (both proprietary and OSS) is its ease
>> of use for experts as well as first timers. And all the fancier
>> operations are accessible thru plugins.
>>
>> I wouldn't want the core interface to be stuffed full of additional
>> menus and buttons. But when activating a plugin I do expect the new
>> functionality to appear as a new menu - just like it works now.  In
>> other words, I'd prefer that most plugins do *not* become part of the
>> core application.
>>      
> Micha,
>
> I don't fully agree with you. I think at least one third of the plugins
>    
Yes, I gather that most devs want to see QGIS become more 
"full-featured" out of the box.
> should be moved into the core. Don't you think that a standard GIS should
> offer:
>
>    
Here's my opinion:
> * advanced labelling
>    
That's part of the label properties, not requiring a change to the basic 
GUI, so yes that could go into the core.
> * file format conversions
>    
as a plugin
> * geoprocessing
> * raster operations (resampling, merging, reclassification, etc.)
>    
plugin
> * importing text files
>    
could be in core
> * simple CAD functionality
>    
plugin
> * georeferencing
> * dxf reading/conversion
>    
plugin
> * WFS support
>    
yes, core functionality
> * GPS support
>    
plugin
> * simple DEM calculations (aspect, slope, shading, curvature, etc.)
>    
plugin
> out of the box without having to search for a plugin at various
> distributed resources?
>    
Isn't this really trivially easy today?
> I don't regard the above functionality as "obscure" or "rarely used". I
> think they should belong to any GIS "out of the box" without having to
> search for and enable plugins first hand.
>
> I agree though, that some advanced analysis plugins, or specialized
> environments, such as OSM, etc. could be handled by separate plugins.
>
> Andreas
>
>    


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