HI Johannes, digging into very old memories here, IIRC when I wrote that metadata docs I was mainly worried about displaying the plugin metadata.txt ini file information in the plugin website, that's why I thought it was wise to ban HTML formatting.
On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 11:05 AM Johannes Kröger (WhereGroup) via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > > Hi! > > https://docs.qgis.org/3.34/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/plugins/plugins.html#metadata-txt > says for the fields "about", "description" and "changelog": "no HTML > allowed" > > But actually we *can* use some HTML > (https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/richtext-html-subset.html I assume). > The plugin's information will be nicely rendered at least in QGIS' > plugin manager. > <img> does not seem to work, it just shows a placeholder. Clicking an > <a> makes the plugin manager display a white page and open my system's > web browser with the URL. But other formatting things work well. > > Example image: > https://matrix.osgeo.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/matrix.wheregroup.com/nKHOTGcYWWpYqQKNWaSjuFbu/html%20in%20metadata.txt.png > > It would be super useful for me in a non-public plugin so I wonder: > > - Does "no HTML allowed" refer to the display in the official plugin > repository https://plugins.qgis.org only? > - Is it a bug that we can use some HTML in those fields or can we rely > on it for the future? > > I am a bit torn between "oh yay, we can add some more detailed > information in a nicely formatted way" and "oh dear lord this might lead > to complex chaos in plugin descriptions". > > Cheers, Hannes > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer -- Alessandro Pasotti QCooperative: www.qcooperative.net ItOpen: www.itopen.it _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
