[Qgis-developer] Processing and ftools (Proposal for hackfest)

[Filipe Dias]

Hi

I think it would be nice to be able to access some tools from the Menu.
Maybe allow users to select which tools or groups of tools can be opened
from the Menu?

A few years ago ArcGIS moved all geoprocessing tools to the Toolbox and a
lot of users complained. They ended up creating a Menu called
"geoprocessing" that had the most commonly used algorithms: intersection,
clip etc.

Also, many ftools algorithms are terribly slow (e.g. dissolve),
particularly when compared to the equivalent tools based on ogr2ogr, that
Giovanni Manghi added to Processing a few months ago. It may worth
considering the possibility of deleting some ftools algorithm in favor of
the ogr2ogr based algorithms.

Cheers

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Régis Haubourg <
regis.haubourg at eau-adour-garonne.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
> + 1 for centralizing alg's in one place. From a UI point of view, what
> about
> discussing some kind of shortcuts in menu, allowing to open directly
> processing algorithms?
> Users do love the graphic icon in ftools that help understanding what
> geometric operator will be triggered. Even more, an assistant would be
> perfect, even if it's only a shortcut to processing tools.
> We have user here that use menu a lot, and that would have diffulties to
> understand having a vector menu without geo processing entries. same for
> raster.
> Cheers
> Régis
>
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