[Qgis-psc] Resource Sharing plugin in core?

[Raymond Nijssen]

Hi all,

Moving existing python code into the QGIS main repo only means it will 
be installed and available without downloading the plugin manager, 
right? In my opinion that's not a big advantage.

What would be a nice improvement is that QGIS natively (c++) have a 
resource interface. So you can use the API in plugins to add and remove 
styles, templates, icons, imagery, color palettes, et cetera. Like you 
can add processing algorithms by plugins as well now.

QGIS would put all these resources in a common place, and will always 
find them when installed. So if you open your colleagues project, the 
company logo in the layout will show up, although it lives somewhere in 
your home directory.

In that way, everybody can make plugins and share resources easily, 
without programming hacky things like string replacements in paths.

Would that be possible?

Kind regards,
Raymond


On 16-02-2020 18:13, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Hi all,
> following some recent work by Håvard Tveite on the Resource Sharing
> plugin, we have received his proposal to include it in core. Previous
> proposal were generally positive, with the caveat that we required
> someone to take care of this specific part of code.
> I personally think this would be a big boot in QGIS productivity if
> widespread, allowing hundreds of people to contribute their own styles,
> symbols and scripts, parallel to the addition of python bindings that
> long ago allowed the flourishing of Python plugins. I would therefore be
> in favour of adding it, perhaps asking Håvard to take a least a part of
> responsibility for it. This involves a moderate risk on our side, but I
> think we can always support it with our own funds or with an ad hoc
> adoption campaign.
> Cheers.
>