Feature request #4069
Updated by Borys Jurgiel about 7 years ago
*Problem description*
Quoting from an old ticket: "With the explosion of QGIS plugins, people will eventually have so many plugins that it would get hard to find them in the Plugin menu or Plugin toolbar."
"eventually" is now!
This is particularly a problem when a plugin is not grouped into one of the categories (e.g. "analysis" or "vector"), and its name is different from the label of its menu entry e.g. "shaded relief" vs "DEM relief shader".
In the plugin manager and the plugin installer there is a "filter", which allows the user to search for a plugin to install/uninstall or enable/disable it. It would be good if there was also somewhere where the user could search for a plugin to _run_ it.
*Possible Solutions*
# Add to the plugin manager the ability to start a plugin.
# Implement something like #1734: "Use a dockable tabbed window for plugins", and include a filter. Personally I don't like the idea of an array of buttons (a list like the plugin manager would be better), and rather than category tabs it may be better to have a single list of plugins, with the ability to filter by category.
# Combine 1 and 2, i.e. modify the plugin manager to be a dockable modeless window with the ability to launch plugins.
# ?
The need for this would probably be reduced significantly if #1602: "Grouping plugins in the menu" was implemented, i.e. if all plugin developers put their plugins into category submenus.
Quoting from an old ticket: "With the explosion of QGIS plugins, people will eventually have so many plugins that it would get hard to find them in the Plugin menu or Plugin toolbar."
"eventually" is now!
This is particularly a problem when a plugin is not grouped into one of the categories (e.g. "analysis" or "vector"), and its name is different from the label of its menu entry e.g. "shaded relief" vs "DEM relief shader".
In the plugin manager and the plugin installer there is a "filter", which allows the user to search for a plugin to install/uninstall or enable/disable it. It would be good if there was also somewhere where the user could search for a plugin to _run_ it.
*Possible Solutions*
# Add to the plugin manager the ability to start a plugin.
# Implement something like #1734: "Use a dockable tabbed window for plugins", and include a filter. Personally I don't like the idea of an array of buttons (a list like the plugin manager would be better), and rather than category tabs it may be better to have a single list of plugins, with the ability to filter by category.
# Combine 1 and 2, i.e. modify the plugin manager to be a dockable modeless window with the ability to launch plugins.
# ?
The need for this would probably be reduced significantly if #1602: "Grouping plugins in the menu" was implemented, i.e. if all plugin developers put their plugins into category submenus.