[QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

[Patrick Dunford]

The main other issue with it is if I have a form that I need to fill in 
the fields on, that doesn't pop up when you rightclick. You have to go 
find it in the table and then fill the fields in.


On 06/06/18 20:34, Thomas Baumann wrote:
> Am Di., 5. Juni 2018 um 19:08 Uhr schrieb Loïc Bartoletti 
> <lbartoletti at tuxfamily.org <mailto:lbartoletti at tuxfamily.org>>:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I forked it some years ago since it wasn't maintained, see
>     https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/CADDigitize/
>
>     FYI, it's integrated into QGIS 3.
>
>     Regards
>
>     Loïc
>
> Hi,
>
> good to know that there is a acitvely maintained alternative to the 
> old plugin.
>
> I agree with Matthias that a patch should be shipped.
>
> ( "/From my point of view, this patch should be shipped even without a
> general overhaul. The plugin in use and probably causing data loss, 
> reducing productivity
> and giving bad reputation for QGIS (I guess many are not aware that it's
> actually a plugin which is responsible for the situation, that their
> QGIS is slowing down)./ " )
>
> The current version of the plugin has more than 70000 Downloads so 
> probably there are a lot of people affected by the bug.
>
> What's really nasty about the plugin is the fact that is slows down 
> QGIS even if you don't use it's functionality. As soon as it is 
> installed it listenes to the currentLayerChanged signal and connects 
> the editingStarted and editingStopped signal again and again to the 
> toggle function.
>
> At the company I'm working for this bug had caused a lot of 
> frustration until I found out what caused QGIS to slow down, freeze 
> and crash.
> Indeed the users (of course) did not differentiate between the core 
> QGIS and plugins   and their feedback just was that their QGIS is slow 
> and unstable.
>
>
> *Now I tried to upload a new version of the plugin with the bugfix at 
> https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/add/ but I get following error-message:*
>
> "You cannot modifiy this plugin. "
>
> How should I proceed?
>
>
> Thomas
>
>
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