[Qgis-user] Enabled plugins for Windows stand-alone installer, version 1.0.2

[Tim Sutton]

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Hi

Michael Toews wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've tested replacing qgis 0.11 with 1.0.2 at my office, and I've come across a few issues with the stand-alone Windows installer. (The OSGeo4W installer does not have any of these issues.)
> 
> As recently discovered, the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package needs to be installed on some systems. Can this be included with the installation?

As far as I know it needs to be run separately...I'll try to figure out
how to automate this, but for now its not possible.

> 
> On starting QGIS on a clean system for the first time, 
> a message box shows "QGIS couldn't find your GRASS installation. Would
you like to specify path (GISBASE) to your GRASS installation." After
clicking "Cancel", another message: "GRASS data won't be available if
GISBASE is not specified". There never was a GRASS installation on the
system, so these dialogs come out of left-field for a basic user that
does not know what GRASS is. It is also not obvious to a new user to
suppress this message by turning off GRASS in the plugin manager.



> 
> After QGIS has started, the toolbar is FULL of icons. Inspecting QGIS Plugin Manager, I see that ALL installed plugins are enabled by default. This is excessive, and is/was not the case on 0.11 stand-alone or the current OSGeo4W versions.

Many users simply dont realise the plugins exist if they are not turned
on by default. There is no way to keep everyone happy on this at the
moment. In a future version of unstable I am planning a 'first run'
wizard that will guide the user through making a selection of plugins to
enable.  Its unlikely that this will be backported to 1.0.x though.

> 
> Is it possible to revert to previous behaviour (or same as OSGeo4W behaviour), where none of the plugins are enabled by default? This will streamline the initial startup for a new user since it won't show the GISBASE messages, it will startup faster, and the interface will not be clustered with icons from all available plugins.

As mentioned above, this was *added* to streamline things for the new
user. I will try to find a way to resolve the GRASS issue though.

Out of interest, how many users are you deploying this build of QGIS to?

Regards

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