Feature request #9405
differentiate between built-in plugins and user plugins
| Status: | Closed | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: |  Borys Jurgiel | ||
| Category: | Plugin Manager | ||
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | fixed/implemented |
| Easy fix?: | No | Copied to github as #: | 18002 |
Description
Hi !
I find it unclear for the user that user-installed plugins and built-in plugins are not differentiated at all.
Problems :
- hard for the user to understand why a plugin can be uninstalled why another can't
- it feels like someone already installed a lot of plugins when you may actually work on a fresh and clean install
- this is made even worse when some of the built-in plugins are invalid
Possible solutions:
A. (easy) : list the system plugins at the bottom of the list, with a separator between the user plugins and the system plugins
B. (medium) : add a "system plugins" tab alongside "All","Installed",etc. This would make sense since a built-in plugin is not actually "installed" (at least not by the user)
Thanks for the great plugin manager ;)
Olivier
History
#1
Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 11 years ago
- Target version set to Future Release - Nice to have
#2
Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 7 years ago
- Easy fix? set to No
#3
Updated by Borys Jurgiel about 7 years ago
- Description updated (diff)
- Status changed from Open to Closed
- Resolution set to fixed/implemented
Fixed in 87d087bbfdb0
As the number of core plugins is decreasing and we're going to remove them all some day (implementing as non-plugin core functions), I didn't create any new tabs. Instead, there is a color bar stating "This is a system plugin, so you can't uninstall it" on top of the plugin description (similarly to all those "This is a trusted plugin" etc.
#4
Updated by Harrissou Santanna about 7 years ago
Borys, how about using "Core plugin" instead of "system plugin"? This is how they are called all over the documentation http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/plugins/core_plugins.html.
#5
Updated by Borys Jurgiel about 7 years ago
Harrissou Santanna wrote:
Borys, how about using "Core plugin" instead of "system plugin"? This is how they are called all over the documentation http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/plugins/core_plugins.html.
Ah, thanks a lot! How could I forget the right term... Apparently I'm getting old :)
Fixed in 1c8803c5e1bf5f
Btw. Any fixes to my wording are always welcome!