Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

On 2018-06-06 12:59, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Il 06/06/2018 11:22, DelazJ ha scritto: I'd be in favor of fixing the current issue of freeze while deprecating it with a message in its description (in Plugin Manager) inviting potential users to migrate to the alternatives. +1 But then I think,

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

Il 06/06/2018 11:22, DelazJ ha scritto: > Agreed  with Loïc. We often claim and try (Paolo?) to avoid redundant > plugins. If in this case there are (better?) alternatives, we should not > revive the plugin imho. > I'd be in favor of fixing the current issue of freeze while deprecating > it with

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

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

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

Alexander Bruy wrote > 2018-06-06 12:50 GMT+03:00 Nyall Dawson > nyall.dawson@ > : >> I'd be very much in favour of deprecating the OpenLayers plugin and >> marking it with a "install QuickMapServices" instead warning. > > Maybe better to point to core fucntionality than yet another plugin?

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

@ Richard Duivenvoorde : I am talking about the Rectangles Ovals Digitizing plugin ( https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/rectovalDigit/ ) Current version is 1.1.2 The code is currently available at https://github.com/vinayan/RectOvalDigitPlugin The author itself ( Pavol Kapusta ) is ok with the

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

2018-06-06 12:50 GMT+03:00 Nyall Dawson : > I'd be very much in favour of deprecating the OpenLayers plugin and > marking it with a "install QuickMapServices" instead warning. Maybe better to point to core fucntionality than yet another plugin? -- Alexander Bruy

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

On 5 June 2018 at 23:44, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > > From my point of view, this patch should be shipped even without a > general overhaul. > The plugin in use and probably causing data loss, reducing productivity > and giving bad reputation for QGIS (I guess many are not aware that it's > actually

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

On 2018-06-06 11:13, L.Bartoletti wrote: Not for me :) I maintain only my fork (CADDigitize), and I preferer work on cad integration into qgis :) No offense to my question, but why use this plugin again, since CADDigitize or QAD (and maybe others) do the same job (better) and more? Regards

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

In the fixed version of the plugin I have written in the about section: "about=THIS PLUGIN IS NO LONGER ACTIVELY MAINTAINED. PLEASE USE CADDIGITIZE INSTEAD: https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/CADDigitize/; So the idea behind the update is just to fix the problem for the users who have installed the

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

Hi, Should we not take the occasion to get rid of this plugin 2018-06-06 11:13 GMT+02:00 L.Bartoletti : > > > No offense to my question, but why use this plugin again, since > CADDigitize or QAD (and maybe others) do the same job (better) and more? > > Agreed with Loïc. We often claim and try

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

The main other issue with it is if I have a form that I need to fill in the fields on, that doesn't pop up when you rightclick. You have to go find it in the table and then fill the fields in. On 06/06/18 20:34, Thomas Baumann wrote: Am Di., 5. Juni 2018 um 19:08 Uhr schrieb Loïc Bartoletti

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

Not for me :) I maintain only my fork (CADDigitize), and I preferer work on cad integration into qgis :) No offense to my question, but why use this plugin again, since CADDigitize or QAD (and maybe others) do the same job (better) and more? Regards Loïc On 06.06.2018 10:48, Richard

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

On 2018-06-06 10:34, Thomas Baumann wrote: Am Di., 5. Juni 2018 um 19:08 Uhr schrieb Loïc Bartoletti : Hi, I forked it some years ago since it wasn't maintained, see https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/CADDigitize/ FYI, it's integrated into QGIS 3. Regards Loïc NOW I TRIED TO UPLOAD A NEW

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

Am Di., 5. Juni 2018 um 19:08 Uhr schrieb Loïc Bartoletti < lbartole...@tuxfamily.org>: > Hi, > > I forked it some years ago since it wasn't maintained, see > https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/CADDigitize/ > > FYI, it's integrated into QGIS 3. > > Regards > > Loïc > Hi, good to know that there

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

Hi, I forked it some years ago since it wasn't maintained, see https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/CADDigitize/ FYI, it's integrated into QGIS 3. Regards Loïc Le 05/06/2018 à 13:16, Thomas Baumann a écrit : Hello, the Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin (

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

On 06/05/2018 03:39 PM, Thomas Baumann wrote: > Am Di., 5. Juni 2018 um 14:29 Uhr schrieb Matthias Kuhn > mailto:matth...@opengis.ch>>: > > > > On 06/05/2018 02:12 PM, Nyall Dawson wrote: > > On 5 June 2018 at 21:51, Matthias Kuhn > wrote: > >> I

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

Am Di., 5. Juni 2018 um 14:29 Uhr schrieb Matthias Kuhn : > > > On 06/05/2018 02:12 PM, Nyall Dawson wrote: > > On 5 June 2018 at 21:51, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > >> I have never used the plugin but repeatedly seen its name mentioned, so > >> I assume it's widely used? > >> > >> In this case, it

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

I use it, but only when needing to actually draw, as it leaks memory quite badly causing the software to slow down. The rest of the time I start up Qgis (2.18) using the -noplugins flag to prevent it from loading. I know there is some kind of capability in 3.0 included but I haven't figured

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

On 05-06-18 14:06, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > On 06/05/2018 02:01 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: >> On 05-06-18 13:51, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > >> But we should also not keep old, troubling plugins in the repo list IF >> there are better newer alternatives available. >> In this case, try: >> >>

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

On 5 June 2018 at 21:51, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > I have never used the plugin but repeatedly seen its name mentioned, so > I assume it's widely used? > > In this case, it would be great if someone could volunteer as a new > maintainer for the plugin. I think the minimal amount of work would be >

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

On 06/05/2018 02:01 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > On 05-06-18 13:51, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > But we should also not keep old, troubling plugins in the repo list IF > there are better newer alternatives available. > In this case, try: > > http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/shapetools/ > > which

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

On 05-06-18 13:51, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > I have never used the plugin but repeatedly seen its name mentioned, so > I assume it's widely used? I know, it was the first plugin which made it possible to to rectangles and shapes. BUT it is also known as a plugin which kills QGIS after some time,

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

I have never used the plugin but repeatedly seen its name mentioned, so I assume it's widely used? In this case, it would be great if someone could volunteer as a new maintainer for the plugin. I think the minimal amount of work would be to merge pull requests and upload patched releases to the

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

On 05-06-18 13:16, Thomas Baumann wrote: > As the plugin slows down QGIS very badly until it freezes after editing > and saving edits for some time I think that the current version in the > official plugin repository should be marked as deprecated. Ok, I added the deprication flag then, also as