[QGIS-Developer] Reword "Trusted Plugin" --> "Trusted Plugin Author"?

DelazJ delazj at gmail.com
Thu Sep 7 09:14:01 PDT 2017


Hi,
I know there has been a lot of discussion about this subject and sorry
to revive it.
I'd like to propose to reword the "Trusted Plugin" text in the Plugin
Manager into "Trusted Author" or "Trusted Plugin Author".
>From what I've understood from the different discussions, it will
better reflect what it is and will avoid misunderstanding from users.
Reading "Trusted plugin" makes people think that this plugin is better
than other "featured duplicate" plugins and, worse, that the behavior
of the plugin is approved by QGIS Project. They could also think that
this is the recommended and bug free plugin from QGIS Project for what
they want to do, which IMHO is wrong: we do not certify the plugin, we
certify we know the author.

I know there have been literature on what trusted means, some blog
post (unfortunately now) hidden on the Internet and even Official doc
doesn't mention this tag (though I'm less and less convinced that
people do read manuals) so a new user may not know what it's about.
A case I have in mind is the Table Manager plugin. For years, it has
been the main tool to refactor a table, did well his job (Thanks
Borys) and its use was advised all over the web. A newcomer will jump
on it without clearly reading its low-level description stating that
it's now a deprecated plugin, because the plugin is green and there's
a green band at the top stating "This plugin is trusted".

My initial intention was to ask to remove that statement (because end
user doesn't care who has plugin approval right) but I think it's also
nice to highlight those people/company that do the communitarian "job"
(reason why they became trusted) and another wording will, I'm
convinced, better serve that.
Thanks.

Regards,
Harrissou


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