[Qgis-developer] PostGIS plugins menu

[Borys Jurgiel]

My suggestion for now is to put everything to a PostGIS submenu within the 
Plugins menu:

self.iface.addPluginToMenu('PostGIS', actionBlahBlah)

Then we can modify the QgsInterface.addPluginToMenu method to put each submenu 
either to the Plugins branch or to the main menu, so each user can configure 
which plugin sumbenus are at hand. It's a five-minuts-fix to read it from 
QSettings (still without any GUI for configuring it, but it's a step forward).

The third step is the GUI. I started refactoring the Installer (just three 
hours per month, so it's why no changes are commited) and with Martin and Anne 
we plan to put it as a second tab of the manager. What about a third tab 
"menus and toolbars", when an user can be able to:

1. Select whether given submenu (e.g. PostGIS) goes to the main menu or the 
Plugins menu
2. Select whether given submenu creates its own toolbar or goes to the main 
Plugin toolbar.
3. Compose own toolbar(s) with a set of individual plugin buttons. It allows 
to hide the native plugin toolbar and enable personalized ones, like "Monday's 
tasks", "Tools useful for X-files processing etc" 
4. Save/load profiles (at least sets of plugins to be loaded - now I often 
have to use --noplugins option to make qgis faster)

What do you think? The first two steps can be done in a moment.




> Hi Paolo,
> 
> Adding an item to the top menu bar should be avoided, if it is done for
> each extension (like cadtools or manageR already do) or group of
> extensions (the same reasonning could be applied for R, etc.) this bar
> will soon become too long to be seen on a 17" or a netbook. In the end
> it'll just move the mess from a menu list to the main menu toolbar.
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