Bug #4177

restart needed to hide some disabled plugins

Added by Alister Hood almost 2 years ago. Updated almost 2 years ago.

Status:Closed Start Date:08/15/2011
Priority:Low Due date:
Assigned to:- % Done:

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Category:Python plugins and bindings
Target version:-
Platform:Windows 7 Patch supplied:No
Platform version:7 Affected version:master
Status info: Causes crash or corruption:No
Resolution:invalid

Description

I've found that on Windows 7, after disabling (in the plugin manager) the plugins which you can see in the attached screenshot, they are not removed from the plugins menu (or from the toolbar in the case of the zonalstatistics plugin) until I restart QGIS.
The same thing does not occur on Windows XP.

Is this a problem with these particular plugins, or with something else?

plugins_not_removed.png (16.6 kB) Alister Hood, 08/15/2011 07:35 pm

History

#1
Updated by Martin Dobias almost 2 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • Resolution set to invalid

That is not a QGIS bug - it is a problem of individual plugins. They should properly implement unload() method that removes all the stuff that plugin creates (menus, buttons on toolbars, ...) It would be good to notify plugin authors.

#2
Updated by Alister Hood almost 2 years ago

Great, thanks.
I have notified the makers of each of those plugins.

#3
Updated by Ivan Mincik almost 2 years ago

Thanks a lot for notice about 'Google Layers'. My idea is to drop 'Google Layers' in favor of 'OpenLayers plugin' which is doing the same thing much better. Ivan

#4
Updated by Cagil Seker almost 2 years ago

Thanks for the notice. Visibility Analysis plugin has been updated for the changes (to 0.1.0).

#5
Updated by Alister Hood almost 2 years ago

Great, thanks for letting us know. Michael Minn informed me he has updated MMQGIS as well.

Ivan Mincik wrote:

Thanks a lot for notice about 'Google Layers'. My idea is to drop 'Google Layers' in favor of 'OpenLayers plugin' which is doing the same thing much better. Ivan

Yes, I agree it is generally better to have one tool instead of several, and make it work really well.
Unfortunately there is currently a major problem with Openlayers, which might force people to stick with Google Layers (#3978), but hopefully it will get fixed...

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