[Qgis-user] Re: ideas for developpers

[maning sambale]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Carson Farmer <cfarmer at uvic.ca> wrote:
>
>
> Sebastien Vial wrote:
>>
>> And now, some ideas :
>> * for plugin developpers with time : (I'm a gis teacher, but with no time
>> and no python capacities... I'm trying to discover this interesting
>> programming language)
>> - join by attribute : join all the objets with the same attributes (the
>> opposite of the split by attributes) ; used to merge some polygons with the
>> same value in a column attribute
>
> I'll try to add this to fTools (see below)

May I add, edit attribute column from a pre-defined list box of choices

>> - simplify vector layer according to the scale ; there exists a python
>> script - in the gdal package for python- whose name is simplify.py that does
>> it... and a postgis script http://www.bostongis.com/postgis_simplify.snippet
>>
>> * Wouldn't it be interesting to organize (at least a little) the plugin
>> menu ? mine begins to be very... large ! For exemple, we could organize like
>> - vector objects oriented plugins
>> - database oriented plugins
>> - raster oriented
>> - import/export
>> - selecting
>> - statistics...
>
> Most of my plugins (from the cfarmer repository) will soon be available as
> part of a single plugin menu (fTools) that gets added to the QGIS menu list
> (next to help). This should reduce the clutter on the plugins toolbar. Other
> than this, the above idea would certainly make it easier to find that
> plugins that you're looking for when you need them. This way users could
> (for example) opt to only have the 'vector based plugins' menu showing when
> working strictly with vector data.
>>
>> * and about the plugin manager : adding a column to know the installed
>> version of the plugin (like some linux package manager), in order to compare
>> the version number, and to know if the plugin needs to be re-installed ---
>> and perhaps a warning when there is a new version of a plugin
>
> This is also a good idea, and discussions regarding this and other aspects
> of plugin dependencies have been discussed on the qgis-developer list (See
> the comments from Barry Rowlingson and Volkan Kepoglu from around the 13th
> and 14th)
>
>>
>> Many thanks in advance !!
>>
>> I'm writing docs on qgis use (and the plugins !!)  for my students, but
>> there will be in FRENCH !!!
>
> I would be interested in seeing these docs when you're done!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carson
>>
>> Seb
>>
>> --
>> Sébastien VIAL
>> Prof d'Info - Resp. TIC/Comm - Formateur SIG
>> Lycée Agricole du Balcon des Ardennes
>> http://www.lebalcon.fr
>> tel : 03-24-57-66-71
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