[Qgis-developer] Renaming SEXTANTE

[Nathan Woodrow]

Showing SEXTANTE, GDAL Tools, fTools in the menu is the implementation
model leaking into the UI.  The users don't care how it's implemented as
long as it works.

- Nathan


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>wrote:
>
>> So is the proposal to change Analysis to Processing?
>> I don't think there's a reason to remove the SEXTANTE branding as
>> SEXTANTE does exist outside a QGIS context, ftools is another story
>> since that only exists in QGIS. I'm split on GDAL Tools, since it is
>> good to make sure users know what underlying tool is being used (ie in
>> the event they want to use the command line).
>>
>> As for the Vector, Raster, etc menus... it's expected that over time
>> plugins will sort themselves into those menus in order to add
>> organization and make it more obvious what a tool does. It also makes
>> the generic plugins section smaller so that you don't have to wade
>> through 100 plugins to find the one you want.
>>
>> The same applies for Analysis or Processing, I expect other analysis and
>> processing tools to exist that are not SEXTANTE but end up on the list,
>> in which case being able to tell it apart from what's there remains
>> important.
>>
>> To me this is a UI question, not a core vs. non-core/c++ vs. python
>> question. ie: How do we organize and arrange menus to maximize discovery
>> of tools and ease workflow (fewer clicks or faster nav to the correct
>> tool).
>>
>> Analysis or Processing are both fine to me so +0 or maybe Advanced ....?
>>
>>
> The issue is more that in plugin manager you see all these strangely named
> things which don't match their corresponding user interface components...
>
> Also users of the API have to deal with these naming ideosychrasies - it
> would be much nicer to do geoprocessing.* than sextante.*
>
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>> On 08/10/2013 10:53 PM, Saber Razmjooei wrote:
>> > +1 for changing name.
>> > I like GRASS menus, it has all the analytical modules under vector and
>> > raster menu. Can similar thing be done with SEXTANTE?
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Saber
>> >
>> > On 2013-08-10 12:23, Alexander Bruy wrote:
>> >> +1 from me to renaming.
>> >>
>> >> Maybe we can use "Processing" or "GeoProcessing" as new name.
>> >>
>> >> 2013/8/10 Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>:
>> >>> +1 from me too.
>> >>>
>> >>> Personally I find the core plugin concept unnecessary. If it's core it
>> >>> shouldn't be a plugin and should just be part of the main program.
>> >>> It can
>> >>> still be Python that is fine however users shouldn't have to turn
>> >>> them on
>> >>> and off they should just be there and be transparent.
>> >>>
>> >>> IMO we should aim to kill of all C++ core plugins in 2.1 and make
>> >>> them core
>> >>> features.Things like the geometry checking, spatial join,
>> georeferencer
>> >>> should all be core features and have C++ and Python APIs that the
>> >>> user can
>> >>> use.
>> >>>
>> >>> - Nathan
>> >
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