Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-18 Thread Alexander Bruy
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:08:56 -0700 (PDT) vinayan vinayan...@gmail.com wrote: I think it is best to have maximum algorithms available in c++ ap, in the analysis module(i see that some are already available)..I would be willing to contribute to it if required All fTools functions are in

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-18 Thread Agustin Lobo
Victor, Maybe I'm wrong but I think that Sextante does not work on qgis 1.8, right? Note that, in such a case, feedback from users will be limited as most users work with the stable release. I have a 1.9 version on the little Mac and test from time to time. Agus On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:27

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-18 Thread Werner Macho
hi! If I remember correct Carson Farmer startet to bring the algorithms into a cpp library (which would be a good and fast choice i think) I'd welcome having fast and reliable algorithms in cpp .. So I agree with Agustin - very welcome work.. regards Werner On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:48 PM,

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-18 Thread Victor Olaya
Agustin SEXTANTE now only works on 1.9 (to become 2.0 soon...), but all this discussion is about tools in versions = 2.0. So those users that work with the stable version will have SEXTANTE in their stable 2.0 I agree with the need of that c++ conversion. Once that is ready, wrapping from

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-18 Thread Victor Olaya
That was my thought...but for some reasons some operations are very slow from the fTools code, even if they use indexing. I have a couple of examples with points in polygon calculation, that take ages in fTools (or the same SEXTANTE algorithm, which has the same code), and they shouldn't. Maybe

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-18 Thread Agustin Lobo
Victor, I know this is about = 1.9, that's is the point: I want to stress the contradiction about asking for feedback while the tools cannot be tested on the stable version that most users use. Qgis has an extraordinary feature: users can test experimental tools developed as plugins while keeping

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread Paolo Cavallini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 17/04/2013 07:42, Anita Graser ha scritto: I see. So you'd suggest to keep only Sextante code (where duplicates exist!) but provide shortcuts from the menu? I'd +1 that. I've been testing a variety of functions in the menus and in Sextante

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Anita, yep, remove code for ftool functions that are in sextante but keep vector menu shortcuts. On 17 Apr 2013 12:42, Anita Graser anitagra...@gmx.at wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.comwrote: There might be a way to make most people happy here. I

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Paolo, imo decision of looking into this option for 2.0 vs 2.1 should be primarily driven by quality. If qgis can offer better quality in vector functions by maintaining the two mechanism for 2.0 then it should be deferred to 2.1. If the opposite is true, then might be worth for Victor to weight

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread Alexander Bruy
Hi, personally I think that we should leave only SEXTANTE but first need to implement all missed functionality. On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:34:13 -0700 (PDT) Anita Graser anitagra...@gmx.at wrote: In case of GDAL tools, I see the advantage of being able to copy the GDAL code. Agreed, having such

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread Victor Olaya
Bernhard I am sorry to hear about your bad experience. Could you detail a bit more about what you are doing (algorithms you are running, etc)?. PostGIS layers should work without problems, but I have recently fixed a problem with PostGIS when using SAGA algorithms, so there might be other issues

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread Bernhard Ströbl
Hi Victor, thank you for your quick reply and even more for all the work you are doing for SEXTANTE. If it is operable (and I am sure, it will be) SEXTANTE will be a big step forward for QGIS! I am going to send you the model an layers (as shape files, you need to import two of them into

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread Victor Olaya
I like the idea of allowing menu entries to be defined from SEXTANTE algorithms, as a shortcut to them. If we agree on that, I could start working on it. Thanks everyone for you ideas! Cheers Victor 2013/4/17 Bernhard Ströbl bernhard.stro...@jena.de: Hi all, for a course I am about to give

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread Filipe Dias
I agree with allowing the user to define some Menu entries. As an end user I'd rather have all Analytical tools in one place, but this would allow people to not loose their habit of calling some more commonly used tools (I agree with Paolo, a poll with be good) from the Menu. Sextante is more

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread Bernhard Ströbl
Hi all, just want to inform you that Victor was able to solve my two problems. Number 1 (CRS missmatch) was kinda my fault (or let's say the fault of a former QGIS version where my project originally was created in: QGIS did compare proj4 definition and picked the first CRS the definition of

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread Victor Olaya
Bernard's problem was related with using non-file layers in the modeler. It was a very easy fix, so please, everyone that's using SEXTANTE, share your problems so we can work on them and make the software more stable. :-) Thanks in advance! 2013/4/17 Bernhard Ströbl bernhard.stro...@jena.de: Hi

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread Bernhard Ströbl
Wouldn't it be good to have SEXTANTE as category in the bug tracker (like fTools and GDAL tools)? Bernhard Am 17.04.2013 12:27, schrieb Victor Olaya: Bernard's problem was related with using non-file layers in the modeler. It was a very easy fix, so please, everyone that's using SEXTANTE,

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread antoniolocandro
Well since I can't code I can help with the testing, just point me where to start and I will try Sextante  Sent from Samsung tabletFilipe Dias filipesd...@gmail.com wrote:I agree with allowing the user to define some Menu entries. As an end user I'd rather have all Analytical tools in one

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread Filipe Dias
Get Qgis Master, randomly (or deliberately) choose tools that you know how to use and run them. If they don't work as expected, report a bug: http://hub.qgis.org/projects/sextante/issues When I have enough time, I do my regular work using Qgis Master and report the bugs that I find. On Wed,

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread Paolo Cavallini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 17/04/2013 10:29, Filipe Dias ha scritto: I agree with allowing the user to define some Menu entries. As an end user I'd rather have all Analytical tools in one place, but this would allow people to not loose their habit of calling some more

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread Paolo Cavallini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 17/04/2013 09:49, Victor Olaya ha scritto: I like the idea of allowing menu entries to be defined from SEXTANTE algorithms, as a shortcut to them. If we agree on that, I could start working on it. yes, nice idea - be careful not to generate

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread Anita Graser
Am 17.04.2013, 18:26 Uhr, schrieb Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it: so until we have a proper, automatic test at every commit, I would prefer to rest on solid ground. Let me just note that I'm not so sure how solid our ground is. E.g. ftools union tool used to work fine and is broken

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-17 Thread vinayan
+1 for keeping the vector menu. I think it is best to have maximum algorithms available in c++ ap, in the analysis module(i see that some are already available)..I would be willing to contribute to it if required thanks Vinayan -- View this message in context:

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-16 Thread Anita Graser
Hi, I know this thread has been silent for a while but I think it's important to bring it up once more. I'm currently trying to develop some materials and wondering if they should cover ftools/GDAL or Sextante mainly. Currently, it sounds like it is certain that Sextante will be around in future

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-16 Thread Filipe Dias
I agree. Sextante makes finding the appropriate tools a lot easier, specially when the user is doing GIS analysis for a long time. In ArcGIS 9.1 or 9.2 ESRI removed the Analysis tools from Menu and put them all on ArcToolbox. A lot of users complained and they ended up creating a Geoprocessing

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-16 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
There might be a way to make most people happy here. I find the vector menu a nice ui shortcut for useful functions. If sextante relevant functions are at par (or better), couldn't the vector menu items stay, which would please many, and when clicked triggers sextante's function dialogue? Victor?

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-04-16 Thread Anita Graser
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.comwrote: There might be a way to make most people happy here. I find the vector menu a nice ui shortcut for useful functions. If sextante relevant functions are at par (or better), couldn't the vector menu items stay, which

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-03-25 Thread Agustin Lobo
I strongly oppose eliminating the tools in fTools and gdaltools from the main menu. Your argument contemplates the picture from the point of view of the developer only. While having certain tools (i.e. R scripts, original sextante, OTB...) within the Sextante menu makes sense, from a user point of

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-03-25 Thread Victor Olaya
Agustin I actually have always wondered why fTools were within Sextante also. The main reason is that being part of SEXTANTE, they become more powerful tools. They can be used in the modeler, in the batch processing interface, in the console... Plus, history is kept for those commands as

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-03-25 Thread Caio Hamamura
Yeah, I already needed to use as batch when SEXTANTE wasn't that popular, so I had to use grass instead. So just the batch feature already justifies the implementation of FTools in SEXTANTE, thank you guys, it's really a worthy tool. Caio Hamamura 2013/3/25 Victor Olaya vola...@gmail.com

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-03-25 Thread Ramon Andiñach
On 25/03/2013, at 19:52 , Agustin Lobo wrote: I strongly oppose eliminating the tools in fTools and gdaltools from the main menu. Your argument contemplates the picture from the point of view of the developer only. While having certain tools (i.e. R scripts, original sextante, OTB...)

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-03-20 Thread Alexander Bruy
Hi, On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:40:03 +0100 Martin Dobias wonder...@gmail.com wrote: The port of original algorithms to SEXTANTE seems to be nearly complete and SEXTANTE has superior approach of creating the GUI for algorithms dynamically (similar to GRASS toolbox) instead of manually creating

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-03-20 Thread Alex Mandel
On 03/19/2013 11:34 PM, Alexander Bruy wrote: Hi, On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:40:03 +0100 Martin Dobias wonder...@gmail.com wrote: The port of original algorithms to SEXTANTE seems to be nearly complete and SEXTANTE has superior approach of creating the GUI for algorithms dynamically (similar to

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-03-20 Thread Werner Macho
Hi! I am usually also for cleaning up - and removing stuff like duplicate labelling and such things but for functions like GDAL and fTools i rather tend to hold them as long as there are not all equivalent function available elsewhere. My point would be to rather clean the GUI (less

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-03-20 Thread Victor Olaya
While we work on moving everything into SEXTANTE, a quick solution can be to add new algorithms in SEXTANTE that call the fTools and GDAL tools and pop up the current dialogs. They will not be available in the SEXTNATE modeler or batch processing interface, but at least they will be in SEXTANTE

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-03-20 Thread Anita Graser
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Victor Olaya vola...@gmail.com wrote: While we work on moving everything into SEXTANTE, a quick solution can be to add new algorithms in SEXTANTE that call the fTools and GDAL tools and pop up the current dialogs. They will not be available in the SEXTNATE

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-03-20 Thread Victor Olaya
I'm afraid it would be super confusing to have tools in Sextante but not available in Modeller. hmmm, I agree that, in this case, it will be confusing, but SEXTANTE supports having algorithms that can be in the modeler and not in the toolbox, or in the toolbox and not in the modeler. There are

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-03-20 Thread Giovanni Manghi
I also would miss the command line viewer that's in GDAL Tools. That is extremely useful when prototyping something that I plan to move to a script. I forgot about the command line window and the (folder) batch geoprocessing in gdal tools... please don't get rid of them without a replacement

[Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-03-19 Thread Martin Dobias
Hi, I have been wondering recently about the status of original fTools and GdalTools plugins and their algorithms in SEXTANTE. As far as I understand, the implementation in SEXTANTE is independent from the original plugins. That means that any changes in fTools or GdalTools have to be ported

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-03-19 Thread Giovanni Manghi
. So...what about removing the original fTools and GdalTools plugins before 2.0 and focusing on improvements of their counterparts in SEXTANTE? it does not seems so easy to me, in sextante there are missing tools, just to make examples, (gdal) clipper, gdaldem, eliminate sliver polygons... and

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-03-19 Thread Victor Olaya
Before doing that, we should make sure all algorithms are in SEXTANTE. Some of them might not be in there, because I did not ported them, considering that another algorithm was equivalent. Particularly, the dem tools and the interpolation tools in SAGA should replace the ones in GDAL and add much

Re: [Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

2013-03-19 Thread Paolo Cavallini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 19/03/2013 20:42, Victor Olaya ha scritto: Anyway, I think that redundancy in SEXTANTE is not so bad as having several ways of doing the same thing in the QGIS interface, since users will understand that algorithms come from differnt providers