Hi, I know there has been a lot of discussion about this subject and sorry to revive it. I'd like to propose to reword the "Trusted Plugin" text in the Plugin Manager into "Trusted Author" or "Trusted Plugin Author". From what I've understood from the different discussions, it will better reflect what it is and will avoid misunderstanding from users. Reading "Trusted plugin" makes people think that this plugin is better than other "featured duplicate" plugins and, worse, that the behavior of the plugin is approved by QGIS Project. They could also think that this is the recommended and bug free plugin from QGIS Project for what they want to do, which IMHO is wrong: we do not certify the plugin, we certify we know the author.
I know there have been literature on what trusted means, some blog post (unfortunately now) hidden on the Internet and even Official doc doesn't mention this tag (though I'm less and less convinced that people do read manuals) so a new user may not know what it's about. A case I have in mind is the Table Manager plugin. For years, it has been the main tool to refactor a table, did well his job (Thanks Borys) and its use was advised all over the web. A newcomer will jump on it without clearly reading its low-level description stating that it's now a deprecated plugin, because the plugin is green and there's a green band at the top stating "This plugin is trusted". My initial intention was to ask to remove that statement (because end user doesn't care who has plugin approval right) but I think it's also nice to highlight those people/company that do the communitarian "job" (reason why they became trusted) and another wording will, I'm convinced, better serve that. Thanks. Regards, Harrissou _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
