[Qgis-developer] Plugins About dialog: make it more uniform

[benoit-3 at bc-consult.com]

Hi, 

On 17.04.2012 10:46, kimaidou wrote: 

> Hi Paolo,
> 
> I
agree with your proposal. Automaticly including 2 plugin menu items ;
"help" and "about" make also sense for me.
> 
> 2012/4/17 Paolo
Cavallini 
> 
>> Hi all.
>> Currently, most plugins do not have an About
dialog, and those who have
>> it are often quite different. Can we
choose a layout, make a template,
>> and ask plugin devs to please use
it?
>> A small thing, but it will sooth out the user experience, and
will give
>> a more integrated ovarall look.
>> All the best.

+1


Furthermore, I suggest to move all the plugins' About dialog boxes
into the main Help menu: 

 Help->Plugins->About plugin X

Help->Plugins->About plugin Y
 Help->Plugins->... 

Another suggestion
is to make standard that the plugin GUI includes a "Help" or "About"
button. 

Now, to come back to Paolo layout idea, what about (it is what
I'm using for my plugins!!):


+--------------------------------------+
| PLUGIN NAME |
| author |
|
|
| version |
| date |
| |
| Plugin purpose line 1 |
| Plugin purpose
line 2 |
| Plugin purpose line 3 |
| ... |
| link to the help
page|
|--------------------------------------|
| legalese blahblah
|
|--------------------------------------|
| Close
|
+-------------------------------------+

 An example is at:
http://www.bc-consult.com/img/aboutex.png 

Regards, 

Benoit 

 


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