On Dec 14, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Alexander Bruy wrote: > Hi all, > > there are lot of core plugins and much more contributed. Keep all them in > single toolbar/menu decrease usability. I remember we have several > discussions about that, and one of the results - Raster and Database menus. > > But most plugins don't used appropriate menus, see [0]. So after some offlist > discussion with Paolo I start to work on moving plugins to correct menus. As > a part of this work I also implement some new functionality: > - new methods to place plugin buttons to the Raster toolbar; > - new Vector menu (hidden by default, appears after loading first plugin. Same > as we have with Database menu) and Vector toolbar. Methods to add plugins > to this menu/toolbar; > - Database toolbar with appropriate methods. > > Also I move most of core plugins to different menus, depending on > their functions.
The only pitfall I see with this is if a plugin isn't loaded and the user loads it they may not know where to find the menu. I don't know if this is the case, but when plugins used the Plugins menu, the user had a clue where to look. > Unchanged plugins are (they still located under Plugins menu): > - eVis > - MapServer export > - OpenStreetMap > - RoadGraph > - Coordinate capture > - Globe > - GRASS > > All this changes available in reorganize-plugins branch from my fork [1] > > [0] http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4395 > [1] https://github.com/alexbruy/Quantum-GIS/tree/reorganize-plugins > > Comments and opinions are welcome. If there are no objections, I can commit > this to master. > > Thanks > -- > Alexander Bruy > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer -gary =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Gary Sherman GeoApt LLC http://geoapt.com Chair, QGIS PSC Books: http://desktopgisbook.com http://qgisbook.com "We work virtually everywhere" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer