[Qgis-developer] Future of standalone browser?

[Régis Haubourg]

Agreed here,
never used it, and it sends a wrong message saying Esri UX choices are good
enough to be copied. Let's get rid of it :)
Régis

2017-02-20 8:52 GMT+01:00 Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>:

> 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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