[Qgis-developer] improvements to (cpt-city) color ramps and download plugin ColorRampManager

[Etienne Tourigny]

Hi all,

I have just commited a few improvements to the cpt-city color ramp
management, as well as the associated plugin used to download the svg
color ramps - ColorRampManager 0.2.

I have been working with the maintainer of the cpt-city archive in
order to better organize the files and information/metadata, as well
as creating a free-to-distribution selection within qgis.

To see these changes you must
- use latest master version of qgis
- update ColorRampManager to 0.2 and download wither cpt-city entire
archive or qgis selection


Highlights are

- dramatic speed improvement when loading many ramps
- display of author and copyright information
- better descriptions of directories and selections (via new xml files)

Changes to ColorRampManager

- 3 sets of ramps: builtin (no download), qgis selection (700KB ) and
full cpt-city archive (3MB)
- select where you want the archives to be saved: qgis user dir or
qgis install dir
- save the changes, then go the the style manager, it will use the
archive + location you selected in the color ramp manager.
- for now qgis-selection is hosted on my website, need to find a place
on qgis.org to put those files.

debug/dev stuff

- internal refactoring
- svg preview for debugging (left-click on the preview, this shows the
builtin svg preview)
- script to make a zip file out of a given selection - this will be
the base of final selection that will ship with qgis.


Please post any comments/feedback/bugs here

Etienne