[Qgis-developer] Plugin reorganization (again)

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Alexander

>Comments and opinions are welcome. If there are no objections, I can commit
>this to master.

Looks good to me, +1 for merging.

One small thing: The zonal statistics plugin is a mix of vector and raster. However I think it should go the vector menu, because the vector layer is modified (raster is only an input component).

Regards,
Marco




On 14.12.2011 19:39, 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.
> 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


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