Hi 2008/8/7 Tara Athan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In 10 seconds of in-depth research in Wikipedia, I come to the conclusion > that the terms plugin, addon and extension are interchangeable. So it seems > confusing to me to introduce more than one- it suggests a difference which > doesn't exist.
Agreed they are all plugins... > > The user guide will follow the GUI, so I think it is premature to talk about > what language will be used in the user guide. > First, decide how the GUI will deal with the issue of a separate mechanism > for plugin installation, then the user guide language will follow naturally. > Ok good. > At present, the Plugin menu seems quite confusing to me. IMO, the Plugin > Installer should not appear within the list of other enabled plugins, but > should be above the divider, together with Plugin Manager. I would rather > see actions phrases (Install Plugins, Manage Plugins) similar to (most) > other menu items, such as Add a Vector Layer. Agreed - I'll wait till Tom has finished his menu revision before changing anything here though. > And then it makes sense to have a submenu under Install Plugins for (Install > Python Plugins) and (Install C++ Plugins). Otherwise, how would one know > that there are C++ plugins to install? If there is no dialog box for > installing C++ Plugins, this could simply lead to a popup with instructions. > C++ plugins are installed either manually or using your operating systems package manager. There is not unified installation framework for C++ plugins as there is for python, and its unlikely this will happen soon. > By the way, how does one "uninstall" plugins? Currently its a purely manual process. Regards Tim > > Tara > ----------8<------------snip-------------------- -- Tim Sutton QGIS Project Steering Committee Member - Release Manager Visit http://qgis.org for a great open source GIS Blog: http://tim.linfiniti.com Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user