[Qgis-developer] Future of standalone browser?

[Nathan Woodrow]

It's the same code, just in dock form.  I find the browser dock to be super
helpful but have never used the standalone version.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>
wrote:

> On 19-02-17 23:33, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just wanted to raise the discussion about the future of the standalone
> > QGIS browser.
> ...
> > So what should we do with the standalone browser in 3.0 and future? is
> > there a future here, or should we just drop this functionality and
> > save ourselves the maintenance burden? And if there IS interest in
> > keeping the browser around, is anyone able to step up and sponsor some
> > investment into making browser more useful and polished?
>
> Hi Nyall,
>
> I would be ok too to drop de browser (mainly because I've never used it
> standalone, and seeing Tim's first point in practice too).
> But what I'm wondering is what code is shared between the
> Browser-panel-widget and the stand alone one.
> Because some of your points are also valid for the widget? And I have a
> troublesome relation with the widget too:
> - eating cpu when you have a WMS-node or db node open when you
> stop/start QGIS
> - very silent failing of drag en drop behaviour (if it works it works,
> but ...)
> - missing datatypes/services too
>
> So same questions for the panel/widget?
>
> In general I'm in favour of making QGIS as lean as possible for 3.0, it
> will gain weight in near future anyway. And this is the only time in
> near future that we can do such a diet :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard D
>
>
>
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