[Qgis-developer] Decorations

[Martin Dobias]

Hi

As previously discussed at hackfest, some (c++) plugins should be
moved to qgis application - they may better integrate and additionally
fewer modules loaded on startup will positively affect startup time. I
have just pushed commits moving copyright label, north arrow and scale
bar plugins to qgis application code, they are renamed to
QgsDecoration* classes. Now they are accessible from View >
Decorations menu. In future it would be nice to convert them to map
canvas items so that they would keep their position on canvas instead
of moving with map when panning.

All of the decorations used to be enabled by default (when loaded). I
wonder if turning them off by default would be more convenient -
probably not everyone would like to see mainly copyright label and
north arrow. Comments?

Martin