On 07-09-17 18:14, DelazJ wrote: > 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.
Hi Harrissou: +1, please do Regards, Richard _______________________________________________ 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
