[Qgis-developer] plugin's menu organization

[Borys Jurgiel]

Dnia niedziela, 28 marca 2010 o 19:49:37 MORREALE Jean Roc napisał(a):
> At Vienna, Boris did a talk about the management of the plugins and
> their position in the menus. If I remember correctly it was agreed that
> plugins should be dispatched in the pre-existent menu to avoid having
> one 3km long menu.
> 
> For example, Stefan Ziegler's CadTool is creating is own menu in QGIS
> with only two items in it which is not consistent :
> - the old fashion way would have been to create a new entry in the
> plugin's menu
> - the other way would be to create an entry in the 'vector' menu and
> representing there all the possible actions so one could reach them with
> keyboard
> 
> What is your point of view ?

Actually we didn't achieve any consensus. One of the ideas was to add them to 
the bottom of each menu, after a spacer separating them from core functions. 
As we have about 130 plugins today and the number is still growing, probably 
we will need to group them into submenus placed under the spacers. Maybe we 
have too many plugins ;-) In the best case, menus and toolbars should be 
configurable by user.

But the first step is just the categorisation. As I'm still completely busy 
since the HF in Vienna, I won't touch it until 1.5 is out. Then will be the 
highest time to do it for the 2.0, aaaggrrh!