Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugins About dialog: make it more uniform

2012-04-19 Thread Giuseppe Sucameli
Hi, On Apr 17, 2012, at 9:42 PM, Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Marco Hugentobler marco.hugentob...@sourcepole.ch wrote: And core plugins that ship with the QGIS code should remove the about dialog (currently gdal tools and db manager) Agreed - any

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugins About dialog: make it more uniform

2012-04-19 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 19/04/2012 16:32, Giuseppe Sucameli ha scritto: Hi, On Apr 17, 2012, at 9:42 PM, Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Marco Hugentobler marco.hugentob...@sourcepole.ch wrote: And core plugins that ship with the QGIS code should remove the about dialog

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugins About dialog: make it more uniform

2012-04-19 Thread Marco Hugentobler
Hi Giuseppe Any opinion on how to handle such things? Can I change the commit message to add those info? On 19.04.2012 16:32, Giuseppe Sucameli wrote: Putting the information in the commit message seems ok to me. Another way to give acknowledgment to sponsors is to write a blog article

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugins About dialog: make it more uniform

2012-04-18 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2012/4/18 Larry Shaffer lar...@dakotacarto.com: Hi Paolo, On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Etienne Tourigny etourigny@gmail.com wrote: I think it is a good idea - perhaps agree on a common interface and add it to the plugin builder? This might have been discussed before - but it would

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugins About dialog: make it more uniform

2012-04-18 Thread Zirneklitis
Hi, Marco Hugentobler wrote: .. And core plugins that ship with the QGIS code should remove the about dialog (currently gdal tools and db manager). .. There is a very useful bit of information in the GDAL tool's about window. It is showing the _actual_ GDAL version. QGIS's about window

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugins About dialog: make it more uniform

2012-04-17 Thread kimaidou
Hi Paolo, I agree with your proposal. Automaticly including 2 plugin menu items ; help and about make also sense for me. 2012/4/17 Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it Hi all. Currently, most plugins do not have an About dialog, and those who have it are often quite different. Can we choose

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugins About dialog: make it more uniform

2012-04-17 Thread benoit-3
Hi, On 17.04.2012 10:46, kimaidou wrote: Hi Paolo, I agree with your proposal. Automaticly including 2 plugin menu items ; help and about make also sense for me. 2012/4/17 Paolo Cavallini Hi all. Currently, most plugins do not have an About dialog, and those who have it are

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugins About dialog: make it more uniform

2012-04-17 Thread Alexander Bruy
Hi, I agree with Paolo's idea, we definitely need more consistent About dialogs. Regarding two menu items (About and Help) I think it is better to have only About dialog with button to open help browser 2012/4/17 kimaidou kimai...@gmail.com: Hi Paolo, I agree with your proposal. Automaticly

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugins About dialog: make it more uniform

2012-04-17 Thread Marco Hugentobler
Hi all And core plugins that ship with the QGIS code should remove the about dialog (currently gdal tools and db manager). For third party plugins it is ok. Regards, Marco On 17.04.2012 09:03, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Hi all. Currently, most plugins do not have an About dialog, and those who

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugins About dialog: make it more uniform

2012-04-17 Thread Etienne Tourigny
I think it is a good idea - perhaps agree on a common interface and add it to the plugin builder? This might have been discussed before - but it would be nice to have a base QgsPlugin python class that all plugins would inherit from and implement this kind of standardization, but I'm not sure if

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugins About dialog: make it more uniform

2012-04-17 Thread Larry Shaffer
Hi Paolo, On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Etienne Tourigny etourigny@gmail.comwrote: I think it is a good idea - perhaps agree on a common interface and add it to the plugin builder? This might have been discussed before - but it would be nice to have a base QgsPlugin python class that