Hi Devs, One of my favorite outcomes from developing fTools, is actually when one or two fTools functions become redundant due to new features in base QGIS. The reason isn't because that means one less tool for me to worry about, but rather because it means things are progressing... and with QGIS things are progressing big time! In that vein, I would like to propose several tool 'retirements' from fTools. While I tend to feel that several ways to do the same thing is helpful/good, it can also get confusing if those different procedures produce varying results. As such, I think it would be appropriate to retire the following tools: - Export/add geometry columns (this can now be done quite easily from the field calculator, and my version appears to have issues with certain vector formats) - Export to new projection (this can now be achieved by "Sav[ing] a layer as...") - Join attributes (this was never really meant as a 'solution', but rather a temporary 'hack' to allow for table joints, but it is slow and combersome, and requires the creation of a new field, whereas the new join capabilities are excellent, fast, and excellent!) - fTools information (nobody needs to know what fTools is anymore, and frankly, this info should really be part of the help system and documentation... also, I think this dialog often interferes with help/about on macs?)
Some other potential 'retirees' are: - Select by location (I think there is a 'Spatial Query' plugin which has this functionality plus much more, and appears to be quite fast) - Define current projection (Is this covered by the new 'Set CRS of Layer(s)' tool? I haven't had much of a play with this one yet, but it sounds like it should, and is more convenient being part of the main GUI) Let me know what you think. Should these be completely retired, or should they perhaps just be wrappers around their replacements to keep things familiar? I think I'd be leaning more towards full retirement, which should hopefully promote doing things 'the right way' (i.e. using the new core QGIS functionality). Regards, Carson -- Carson J. Q. Farmer ISSP Doctoral Fellow National Centre for Geocomputation National University of Ireland, Maynooth, http://www.carsonfarmer.com/ _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
