[Qgis-developer] Infrastructure for plugin settings

[Etienne Tourigny]

I have implemented something like this some time ago, based on a gui from
QT - Settings Editor.

I am not sure if I never commited it or if someone removed it.

I will try to find the code and submit a pull request.

Etienne


On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Victor Olaya <volayaf at gmail.com> wrote:

> The idea is to have that common place for all settings. The bad thing
> that I see (and some people have told me), is that it might be
> difficult to find for a user that searches for a configuration panel
> for a given plugin, since he might look for it in the menu of that
> plugin. A solution to that would be to make it easy to call the
> settigns dialog, but open in the tab (or panel, or whatever),
> corresponding to a given plugin. So there would be a "plugin options"
> menu, with all options, but a plugin author could add a shortcut to
> that and add a "setting of my plugin" menu entry which would go
> straight to those settings.
>
> The thing is to avoid developers creating their own panels and dialogs
> for settings, which is time consuming and each one looks differently.
>
> I would suggest a design similar to the eclipse one, with a tree in
> the left hand side where you have all plugins, and once you select
> one, you see all its parameters in the right-hand side panel.
>
> If anyone is interested, we can discuss this in the HF. It looks to me
> like a nice thing to work on, and we can also adapt some existing
> plugins to use it, once it is done.
>
> cheers
> Víctor
>
>
>
> 2013/9/5 Matthias Kuhn <matthias.kuhn at gmx.ch>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Other applications have unified setting centers like firefox when you
> > enter about:config in the URL bar. But this is in addition to the
> > settings dialog(s) which is/are still offered. Are you thinking about
> > something like this? A simple config value editor, like regedit?
> >
> > Or is the aim of this project a unified config dialog, where plugins
> > register their own tab (or list entry or whatsoever)? In this case,
> > would it be a new dialog "Plugin Options" which would act as container
> > for all options? Or opening up the "Options" dialog for registering
> > additional tabs? IMO the first one has the drawback of brandmarking
> > plugins as 3rd-party, not fully integrated, while the second one has
> > the drawback/risk of cluttering this dialog.
> >
> > Talking about this, I recently did a similar thing for the vector layer
> > properties (add the possibility to add a new tab for plugins. POC
> > implemented in form of layer specific globe settings, not yet merged)
> >
> > Cheers
> > Matthias
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