I agree. Sextante makes finding the appropriate tools a lot easier, specially when the user is doing GIS analysis for a long time.
In ArcGIS 9.1 or 9.2 ESRI removed the Analysis tools from Menu and put them all on ArcToolbox. A lot of users complained and they ended up creating a Geoprocessing menu with Intersection, Union etc. Perhaps something similar could be done in QGIS. On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Anita Graser <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I know this thread has been silent for a while but I think it's important > to > bring it up once more. > I'm currently trying to develop some materials and wondering if they should > cover ftools/GDAL or Sextante mainly. Currently, it sounds like it is > certain that Sextante will be around in future versions while the future of > ftools/GDAL tools is less certain. > > I don't care much about ftools. I don't like having to create new > Shapefiles > every time I run an algorithm. I never managed to remember which tool is in > which submenu. > > In case of GDAL tools, I see the advantage of being able to copy the GDAL > code. > > In Sextante, it's easy to find the tools by name and the results can be > temporal layers. So I strongly disagree with previous arguments that > Sextante is not valuable from a user perspective. > > Even if we don't reach a consensus whether both menus and toolbox should be > around permanently, could someone please confirm what will be the situation > in 2.0? Are there any plans to remove anything for the release? Have any > decisions been made for after 2.0 yet? > > Thanks and best wishes, > Anita > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/fTools-and-GdalTools-sextante-vs-original-plugins-tp5041430p5047360.html > Sent from the Quantum GIS - Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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