[Qgis-developer] Plugin "category" - do we need it?

[Matthias Kuhn]

My main point is, that a category is a single entry, while a plugin can 
actually place no menu entry at all to menu entries in different menus. 
So it should rather be a list of menus where you find related entries 
in than a single entry. Actually this does not offer the possibility to 
add a fair usage description for plugins which offer a different 
approach than to place an entry in a menu (e.g. add additional entries 
in the layer legend context menu...).

So I would remove it to make place for a more dynamic system (e.g. 
quick start text of max 300 chars) where a good recommendation for 
plugin dev's exist on how to write this text.

I have absolutely no strong opinion on this. I think Paolo deals more 
with users than I do.

Cheers

On Die 11 Jun 2013 18:35:17 CEST, Borys Jurgiel wrote:
> Dnia wtorek, 11 czerwca 2013 o 17:57:58 Paolo Cavallini napisał(a):
>> Il 11/06/2013 17:12, Matthias Kuhn ha scritto:
>>> +1 for removing category in favor of tags.
>>>
>>> On Die 11 Jun 2013 17:09:10 CEST, Borys Jurgiel wrote:
>>>> Among many other plugin attributes we have quite useless "category":
>>>> vector/raster/db etc.
>>>>
>>>> Are there any thoughts?
>>
>> It is sometimes difficult to find where a plugin menu is installed. I have
>> found that the category can help users (if correctly described, of
>> course).
>> All the best.
>
> The problem is it must be correctly set...
>
> So we have +1 for removing it and +1 for keeping. Well, I can keep it in the
> detail view, even stronger exposed, but I guess still in a form "Category:
> blahblah" rather than  "Hopefully you may find it in the Vector menu" ;-)
>
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