[Qgis-developer] should core plugins not be available in plugin manager?

[Nathan Woodrow]

+++++1

Yes please. if it's core (plugin or not) it shouldn't be optional and
should be enabled always.
It's just confusing for people and honestly doesn't feel right having core
parts disabled/enabled, imagine if
the style dock or atlas stuff, etc was optional. Messy and confusing.

The other issue is when some of us don't run with all core plugins enabled
all the time it's hard to judge the
full state of things as a complete package e.g I see tons of screenshots
with the shortest path
plugin enabled and taking half the dock space when I bet most people would
never use it.

So a massive +1 from me on this one.

- Nathan


On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 9:05 PM, Victor Olaya <volayaf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> This has been discussed in the past, but i think no decision was
> taken, so I want to bring back the discussion.
>
> I think that core plugins should not be visible in the plugin manager,
> and users should not be able to disable them. If they are core, they
> should be active (the menus and buttons can be removed with the
> "View/Customization..." functionality if the user wants to)
>
> Since we removed the ftools plugin and now have the corresponding
> functionality from Processing, some users are confused for not finding
> the usual tools there. We have kept the same menus, for those that are
> used to them and dont want to use the toolbox. However, if users do
> not have Processing enabled, they won't see those menus. And it is not
> obvious that they have to enable Processing to get something that
> previously was a different plugin..
>
> I think this is an interesting discussion, so if you have ideas or
> think that this might have disadvantages, let's talk about it in here.
>
>
> Thanks!
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