[Qt-creator] Qt Creator Community

[Victor Sardina]

Tobias:

Thank you for putting together the QtCreator plugin "digest" that you
sent a couple of weeks ago, if I remember well.

I found out about the existence of some of those plugins, including the
Doxygen one thanks to your email. This particular Doxygen automatic tags
generation issue, for example, has received a low priority review, but I
believe that this kind of details make the user experience much, much
better. In addition, other IDE already have had those features for a
long time. Who enjoys typing the same tags manually over and over again?

The same applies to code reformatting? I want to get the astyle plugin
working, and will try again some other day. I found this one also listed
in your digest email.

Thank you for the time and effort putting that information together and
sending it for the benefit of all of us.

I understand if the Trolls' team has other priorities, dictated by their
deeper understanding of the project inner workings et al., but sometimes
I wish they had ironed out some of those plugins that I see as most useful.

For example, I do not use the Qml features at all at this time, and see
them rather as a technical curiosity (until I might need them?). I need
to get code documented and formatted quite often though, and so does
anyone who uses QtCreator/Qt on a regular basis, I believe. Having to do
these type of repetitive tasks manually does little to make us more
productive.

Victor

On 7/26/10 10:42 PM, Tobias Hunger wrote:
> On 05.03.2010 12:10, ext Peter Kümmel wrote:
>> As Qt Creater beeing 'only' a plugin-collection,
>> is there a overview where all Nokia and 3rd-party
>> plugins are listet and described?
> 
> We started just that in the qt developer network wiki:
> http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Qt_Creator_Plug-in_Gallery
> 
> We put all the plugins there that we know about. Please add any you are 
> working on in secret:-) Feel free to update any entry where you can 
> provide more information that the little that is there. Especially 
> contact information would be highly appreciated! I think we need to 
> communicate better with 3rd party plugin developers. Currently we hardly 
> ever consider external plugins when redoing interfaces, mostly since we 
> don't know whom to ask.
> 
>> Also, is there a wiki which could be used as entry point
>> for starting developing plugins, with documentations,
>> example plugins, links to other howtos, and so on?
> 
> We are working on improving the documentation shipped with creator. 
> There is some community help with that, too (see 
> http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-creator/qt-creator/merge_requests/159).
> 
> Please feel free to ask for clarification on the documentation here (and 
> to improve it further through your own merge requests). I think this 
> mailing list is the best place to discuss your ideas for plugins and 
> requirements you have, etc.
> 
>> When the intension of Qt Creator is to also create a
>> community around the creater like there is around Eclipse
>> then Nokia should spend some resources to evangelize
>> and support such a community.	
> 
> My impression is that this is slowly starting: You can not really ask 
> people to jump in and provide plugins before a certain point is reached 
> when you are confident that - at least - the mayor APIs are going to 
> stay stable. I think we are getting close to that point now.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Tobias
> 

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