Hi, I agree with Alister. I'm just a noob and don't know too much; I have not installed many plugins, but already I have way too many buttons and tool bars.
Just my $0.02. Best Wishes and thanks for everyone's work on QGIS, Stefan ================================== Stefan Hames, PhD Conservation Science Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 607-254-2496 Office 607-254-2104 Fax 607-273-4915 Home [email protected] ================================== On Feb 24, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Alister Hood wrote: > Hi guys > >> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:40:43 -0300 >> From: Pablo Carreira <[email protected]> >> Subject: RE: [Qgis-user] Plugins re-organization >> To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> Oh, sorry, my last message went with Giuseppe signature. My mistake. >> It's: >> Pablo Torres Carreira >> >> >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected]; [email protected] >> Subject: RE: [Qgis-user] Plugins re-organization >> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:38:28 -0300 >> CC: >> >> >> Hi, >> >>> Hi all, >>> I think that organizing better plugins in menus it's the way to go >> waiting for the new toolbox. >> >>> For example, we could re-organize plugins in Database menu just >> creating some main >>> sub-classes named as the databases' spatial extensions: "PostGIS", >> "SpatiaLite", >>> Obviously there are some plugins which are out because either > general- >> purpose or manage >> >> I thin that many menu levels is good for new users because it organize >> things. But for advanced users it slows things because you have to >> navigate all the menu levels to reach the tool that you want. >> I have two suggestions:1)A side panel with the plugins >> tree.2)Detachable menus, like the older TCL/TK versions of GRASS. Or >> like the the buttons in OpenOffice that have sub-options. >> >> Best. > > More organised plugin menus would be very nice, but personally I think > the ability to disable plugin toolbar buttons is more important :) > > I have so many plugins installed that the plugins toolbar has become > rather useless as it is wider than my screen. I seldom use most > plugins, > so I don't need a toolbar button for them - they are better off in a > menu. > I do want toolbar buttons for some of the plugins that I do use > frequently. > > Regards, > Alister > _______________________________________________ > 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
