2012/4/18 Larry Shaffer <[email protected]>: > Hi Paolo, > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Etienne Tourigny <[email protected]> > 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 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 this would >> be easy to work with. >> >> Etienne >> >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Tim Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi >> > >> > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Marco Hugentobler >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> >> > >> > Agreed - any serious objections from the authors? >> > >> > Regards >> > >> > Tim >> > >> >> 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 >> >>> have >> >>> it are often quite different. Can we choose a layout, make a template, >> >>> and ask plugin devs to please use it? >> >>> A small thing, but it will sooth out the user experience, and will >> >>> give >> >>> a more integrated ovarall look. >> >>> All the best. > > > Since most of this 'about' information is in either the plugin's __init__.py > or metadata.txt file,
This is a good point: we don't have already find a way to translate metadata text fields, anyway, I think that using metadata.txt (__init__.py is deprecated) for all common plugins informations would allow us to show those informations in the plugin web application and to expose them in the xml web service. +1 for using metadata.txt for plugin description, "about" and all other textual common informations regarding the plugin. -- Alessandro Pasotti w3: www.itopen.it _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
