edgar Soldin wrote: > On 12.04.2013 06:01, Larry Reeder wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:04 AM, <edgar.sol...@web.de > <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de>> wrote: > > > > The current "Plugins" main menu item is "Tools" from my point of view. > > if > AggregationTool is doing it differently we should think about streamlining it. > > > > > > I don't have a strong opinion about where this goes, but I don't see the > problem with putting it in plugins. > > > it reads data into OJ. so users would expect it where all the other ways to > read data are. i feel it is these tiny things that make a good software great, > because users intuitively get it.
This belongs to the things which have no absolute right or wrong. One plugin may logically belong to File menu, some other to Tools-Analysis and a third one adds something totally new feature and does not fit to any existing menu item so let it go to a general Plugins. If user now installs all these three plugins he may not expect that they will end up to three different places. Quantum GIS has lots of plugins and an excellent plugin manages and it is obvious that both developers and users have experienced the difficulties to find the plugins after installation. Therefore the plugin manager shows for each plugin where it is actually installed. I am using this fine feature for finding the plugins quite frequently. Hardest to find are plugins which are adding a new icon to such toolbar which needs to be expanded before all the icons come visible. I think that myself I intuitively believe that plugins which I install myself will be found from Plugins. However, I do not want that all the default plugins in the Plus version would go there so my answer for the question where in the menu the additional plugins should go is "Well, it depends". Perhaps the DB Query tool can stay as it is until it becomes a default OJ Plus plugin. Then it might be logical to find it from the same menu than the native Run Datastore Query. By the way, OpenJUMP has Help-About-Extensions page which perhaps could show where plugins are installed like QGis does. But then this menu item should be in Plugins. -Jukka Rahkonen- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
