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

[Victor Olaya]

what about this: having a tool in Processing that allows to select the
algorithms you use the most, and have them in menus and submenus
instead of the toolbox.

Similar to the ArcGIS solution, but more flexible. The code will be
easier to mantain (only one codebase for algorithms), but the users
will be able to easily customize where they want to find the
algorithms, in case they don't want to use the toolbox.

Looks like an interesting thing for the hackfest, and quite feasible
to implement

Thanks for your ideas!

2015-05-06 14:33 GMT+02:00 Filipe Dias <filipesdias at gmail.com>:
> 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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