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

[Alexandre Neto]

+1 by me

If it is a core plugin/functionality, means that it is of interest for most
users, makes no sense to turn it off.

This will solve a few common issues for newcomers.


Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> escreveu no dia segunda, 12/12/2016 às
11:21:

> +++++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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