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

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 12/12/2016 12:05 PM, Victor Olaya 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.

Agreed.

Only issue I see (and the reason I disable processing sometimes) is the 
brokeness of some providers when I mix and match versions of QGIS, or 
run older (compiled) versions of QGIS.

Regards,

Richard