I agree, it took me ages to find the repository.OpenLayers plugin... Peter On 12 August 2012 11:30, Agustin Lobo <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would not call that encouraging but rather pressing. > > I think that by now we can see that some developers prefer keeping > their plugins in their > own repository, perhaps to stress their authorship, to make their web > sites more visible... who knows. > In any case, the availability of some important plugins such as > openlayers has become much less obvious > without the "Add 3rd party plugins" button. > As Carson Farmed said > "I'd also like to suggest that the 'add 3rd party repos' button should > simply fetch a list of 3rd party repositories from the QGIS server > (some sort of list created by an online submission system). That way > there is no hard-coding of repos by Borys, and it's fair for all > authors. We can certainly have a few different lists (i.e. well tested > repos, experimental repos, and untested repos)." > > I think that the "Add 3rd party plugins" button (or some other simple > way of adding these repos to the list) should come back. > > Agus > > 2012/6/17 Nathan Woodrow <[email protected]>: > > Currently yes. We are trying to encourage everyone to move their > > plugins to the official repo. > > > > - Nathan > > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Micha Silver <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 17/06/2012 15:12, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > >> > >> Hi Micha, > >> > >> This support has been dropped for 1.8 in an effort to better organize > >> the plugin situation. For 1.8 the only default plugin repo that is > >> available is the offical repo at plugins.qgis.org. Sounds like a > >> harsh/bold move but having all the plugins in one place is a lot > >> easier to manage and allows for a better user experience. > >> > >> > >> Thanks, I figured that that was the decision. > >> So for plugins that still live only on 3rd party repos, I have to > manually > >> add the URL? (i.e. Openlayers, Topocolors, the Faunalia plugins etc.) > >> > >> - Nathan > >> > >> > >> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Micha Silver <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> It seems that in 1.8 the "Add 3rd party repositories" button is gone > from > >> Fetch plugins. Or am I missing something? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Micha > >> > >> -- > >> Micha Silver > >> 052-3665918 > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Qgis-user mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > >> > >> This mail was received via Mail-SeCure System. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Micha Silver > >> 052-3665918 > > _______________________________________________ > > Qgis-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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