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

[Alessandro Pasotti]

2012/4/18 Larry Shaffer <larrys at dakotacarto.com>:
> Hi Paolo,
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Etienne Tourigny <etourigny.dev at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I think it is a good idea - perhaps agree on a common interface and
>> add it to the plugin builder?
>>
>> This might have been discussed before - but it would be nice to have a
>> base "QgsPlugin" python class that all plugins would inherit from and
>> implement this kind of standardization, but I'm not sure if this would
>> be easy to work with.
>>
>> Etienne
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Marco Hugentobler
>> > <marco.hugentobler at sourcepole.ch> wrote:
>> >> Hi all
>> >>
>> >> And core plugins that ship with the QGIS code should remove the about
>> >> dialog
>> >> (currently gdal tools and db manager).
>> >> For third party plugins it is ok.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Agreed - any serious objections from the authors?
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Tim
>> >
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Marco
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 17.04.2012 09:03, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> 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.
>
>
> Since most of this 'about' information is in either the plugin's __init__.py
> or metadata.txt file,

This is a good point: we don't have already find a way to translate
metadata text fields, anyway, I think that using metadata.txt
(__init__.py is deprecated) for all common plugins informations would
allow us to show those informations in the plugin web application and
to expose them in the xml web service.


+1 for using metadata.txt for plugin description, "about" and all
other textual common informations regarding the plugin.


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