[Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

[Agustin Lobo]

I strongly oppose eliminating the tools in fTools and gdaltools from
the main menu.
Your argument contemplates the picture from the point of view of the
developer only.
While having certain tools (i.e. R scripts, original sextante, OTB...)
within the
Sextante menu makes sense, from a user point of view basic tools such as those
in Vector and Raster are much more intuitive and easy to use as they
currently are in their
respective tabs. I actually have always wondered why fTools were
within Sextante also.
>From the user perspective the unnecessary redundancy is having them
within Sextante.
In short, I think that basic GIS functionality must be kept in the
tabs of the main menu.

Also, please note this question should be discussed in the users list also.

Agus

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been wondering recently about the status of original fTools and
> GdalTools plugins and their algorithms in SEXTANTE. As far as I
> understand, the implementation in SEXTANTE is independent from the
> original plugins. That means that any changes in fTools or GdalTools
> have to be ported manually to SEXTANTE (and vice versa). Also the
> users must be confused by having two completely different ways how to
> trigger the same algorithms. Maintaining both versions will be painful
> for us and our users.
>
> The port of original algorithms to SEXTANTE seems to be nearly
> complete  and SEXTANTE has superior approach of creating the GUI for
> algorithms dynamically (similar to GRASS toolbox) instead of manually
> creating GUI for each algorithm. So...what about removing the original
> fTools and GdalTools plugins before 2.0 and focusing on improvements
> of their counterparts in SEXTANTE?
>
> Regards
> Martin
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