[Qgis-developer] Plugin reorganization (again)
Gary Sherman
gsherman at geoapt.com
Wed Dec 14 15:15:46 EST 2011
On Dec 14, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Alexander Bruy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> there are lot of core plugins and much more contributed. Keep all them in
> single toolbar/menu decrease usability. I remember we have several
> discussions about that, and one of the results - Raster and Database menus.
>
> But most plugins don't used appropriate menus, see [0]. So after some offlist
> discussion with Paolo I start to work on moving plugins to correct menus. As
> a part of this work I also implement some new functionality:
> - new methods to place plugin buttons to the Raster toolbar;
> - new Vector menu (hidden by default, appears after loading first plugin. Same
> as we have with Database menu) and Vector toolbar. Methods to add plugins
> to this menu/toolbar;
> - Database toolbar with appropriate methods.
>
> Also I move most of core plugins to different menus, depending on
> their functions.
The only pitfall I see with this is if a plugin isn't loaded and the user loads it they may not know where to find the menu. I don't know if this is the case, but when plugins used the Plugins menu, the user had a clue where to look.
> Unchanged plugins are (they still located under Plugins menu):
> - eVis
> - MapServer export
> - OpenStreetMap
> - RoadGraph
> - Coordinate capture
> - Globe
> - GRASS
>
> All this changes available in reorganize-plugins branch from my fork [1]
>
> [0] http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4395
> [1] https://github.com/alexbruy/Quantum-GIS/tree/reorganize-plugins
>
> Comments and opinions are welcome. If there are no objections, I can commit
> this to master.
>
> Thanks
> --
> Alexander Bruy
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-gary
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