2013/12/30 Anita Graser <[email protected]> > Hi Alessandro, > > Thanks for chiming in. > > Am 30.12.2013, 09:44 Uhr, schrieb Alessandro Pasotti <[email protected]>: > > But in that particular case (HelloWorld), I feel that people are using it >> as a template to explore/start the development of their plugins. It was >> downloaded more than 4000 times and people did warn me in the past when >> it was broken/uncompatible with newer QGIS version. In other words, even if >> it does just nothing (it's a test plugin) I'm sure it has been useful to >> other users. >> > > I'm sure the plugin is useful for plugin developers. For users though, > it's just confusing to have a plugin offered which doesn't do anything.
Hi Anita, well, the plugin in fact does something even if not very useful: it opens a small window with a button. Did you have any real feedback from users being confused from the HelloWorld plugin? After all, it clearly advertises itself as an example do-nothing plugin. Can you explain me why do you put plugin developers in a different category than users? I tend to see plugin authors as (power) users. If I were a new QGIS user, I would like to have starting point to develop plugins, of course we have the coockbook and the builder plus plenty of blog articles, but as a programmer, what I would search is exactly that: the simplest possible plugin to start tampering with. But I definitely agree that HelloWorld should not have a dual purpose (testing the plugin repository and provide a barebone example for wannabe plugin authors), so here's my proposal: unpublish HelloWorld and create a new Example plugin with the purpose of providing a simple starting point for new plugin authors. -- Alessandro Pasotti w3: www.itopen.it
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