On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Carson Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sebastien Vial wrote: >> >> And now, some ideas : >> * for plugin developpers with time : (I'm a gis teacher, but with no time >> and no python capacities... I'm trying to discover this interesting >> programming language) >> - join by attribute : join all the objets with the same attributes (the >> opposite of the split by attributes) ; used to merge some polygons with the >> same value in a column attribute > > I'll try to add this to fTools (see below)
May I add, edit attribute column from a pre-defined list box of choices >> - simplify vector layer according to the scale ; there exists a python >> script - in the gdal package for python- whose name is simplify.py that does >> it... and a postgis script http://www.bostongis.com/postgis_simplify.snippet >> >> * Wouldn't it be interesting to organize (at least a little) the plugin >> menu ? mine begins to be very... large ! For exemple, we could organize like >> - vector objects oriented plugins >> - database oriented plugins >> - raster oriented >> - import/export >> - selecting >> - statistics... > > Most of my plugins (from the cfarmer repository) will soon be available as > part of a single plugin menu (fTools) that gets added to the QGIS menu list > (next to help). This should reduce the clutter on the plugins toolbar. Other > than this, the above idea would certainly make it easier to find that > plugins that you're looking for when you need them. This way users could > (for example) opt to only have the 'vector based plugins' menu showing when > working strictly with vector data. >> >> * and about the plugin manager : adding a column to know the installed >> version of the plugin (like some linux package manager), in order to compare >> the version number, and to know if the plugin needs to be re-installed --- >> and perhaps a warning when there is a new version of a plugin > > This is also a good idea, and discussions regarding this and other aspects > of plugin dependencies have been discussed on the qgis-developer list (See > the comments from Barry Rowlingson and Volkan Kepoglu from around the 13th > and 14th) > >> >> Many thanks in advance !! >> >> I'm writing docs on qgis use (and the plugins !!) for my students, but >> there will be in FRENCH !!! > > I would be interested in seeing these docs when you're done! > > Cheers, > > Carson >> >> Seb >> >> -- >> Sébastien VIAL >> Prof d'Info - Resp. TIC/Comm - Formateur SIG >> Lycée Agricole du Balcon des Ardennes >> http://www.lebalcon.fr >> tel : 03-24-57-66-71 > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > -- |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| | __.-._ |"Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great." -Yoda | | '-._"7' |"Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden| | /'.-c |Linux registered user #402901, http://counter.li.org/ | | | /T |http://esambale.wikispaces.com| | _)_/LI |---------|----------------------------------------------------------|
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