Hi Richard,
Il 06/06/2018 11:39, Richard Duivenvoorde ha scritto: > Well, no offence either, but I think humans in general are conservative > and like habits and structure :-) > > So Matthias' (probably valid) point is: now we deprecated the (old > Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin), people get lost because the miss > there 'old/valuable/' plugin... > Fact is also that older plugins popup earlier in google results if you > google for certain words. > > So the best way to handle this is to 'market' (better working) plugins > more by maybe writing some blogposts, make people aware of your plugin > in mailing lists etc etc? > > In this way natural selection/evolution should make that the > plugin-dino's finally get extinct because of Google finding the > alternatives :-) > > In general I think it is ok to deprecate plugins! In this case: an > unmaintained buggy one, which has better alternatives... why keep it? > But we have to find an (for us easy) way to help people who got lost > because of a deprecation... > (while writing I see Thomas is answering: I put a pointer to better > working plugin in a fixed version. I think that is a good solution!) as it often happens, I fully agree with you. Let's keep on reducing duplication and confusion among users. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IT&q=qgis,arcgis _______________________________________________ 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
