Bug report #15753

Processing: help users in setting up paths

Added by Paolo Cavallini about 8 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

Status:Open
Priority:Normal
Assignee:-
Category:Processing/Core
Affected QGIS version:3.6.0 Regression?:No
Operating System: Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:No Copied to github as #:23675

Description

People are very often into trouble when it comes to enter the path to specific backends for Processing (e.g. OTB, LASTools, etc.).
Possible partial solutions:

add a check, so if the user enters a wrong path or the filepath instead of the folder, a small dialog with a short explanation can pop up
    adding a small help button close to the path text box can also help.

Possibly a separate issue: it seems that a user has to enter a path including the filename, even when a folder is necessary: pretty confusing IMHO.

History

#1 Updated by Paolo Cavallini about 8 years ago

Ticket recreated, deleted by mistake. Comment by Alexander Bruy: ===
Are you using static package or install OTB from repository?
For me using OTB version from repository works fine without any additional configuration ===

I think config is needed for Osgeo4w packages

#2 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 7 years ago

  • Regression? set to No
  • Easy fix? set to No

#3 Updated by Paolo Cavallini over 6 years ago

  • Assignee deleted (Victor Olaya)
  • Description updated (diff)

Seems solved in QGIS 3. Reopen if necessary.

#4 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 6 years ago

  • Resolution set to fixed/implemented

#5 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 5 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed
  • Resolution changed from fixed/implemented to end of life

End of life notice: QGIS 2.18 LTR

Source:
http://blog.qgis.org/2019/03/09/end-of-life-notice-qgis-2-18-ltr/

QGIS 3.4 has recently become our new Long Term Release (LTR) version. This is a major step in our history – a long term release version based on the massive updates, library upgrades and improvements that we carried out in the course of the 2.x to 3x upgrade cycle.

We strongly encourage all users who are currently using QGIS 2.18 LTR as their preferred QGIS release to migrate to QGIS 3.4. This new LTR version will receive regular bugfixes for at least one year. It also includes hundreds of new functions, usability improvements, bugfixes, and other goodies. See the relevant changelogs for a good sampling of all the new features that have gone into version 3.4

Most plugins have been either migrated or incorporated into the core QGIS code base.

We strongly discourage the continued use of QGIS 2.18 LTR as it is now officially unsupported, which means we’ll not provide any bug fix releases for it.

You should also note that we intend to close all bug tickets referring to the now obsolete LTR version. Original reporters will receive a notification of the ticket closure and are encouraged to check whether the issue persists in the new LTR, in which case they should reopen the ticket.

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#6 Updated by Paolo Cavallini over 5 years ago

  • Status changed from Closed to Reopened
  • Affected QGIS version changed from 2.18.0 to 3.6.0

Still true in 3.6

#7 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 5 years ago

  • Resolution deleted (end of life)
  • Status changed from Reopened to Open

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