[Solved] Feature Request: FC Addon Manager needs a panel to display screenshots

[Kunda1]

Work has been underway to improve the FC Addon Manager lately ( https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-addons/issues/29 )
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There is a need at some point to help educate folks about some of the powerful addons that FC has and so in addition to the work that has been done I propose adding a panel in the Manager that displays images, see https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-addons/issues/37

From a previous thread:

The FreeCAD addon manager (https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-addons) opens exciting FreeCAD possibilities. As of Jan 20, 2017 the addon manager looks like this:

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Observations:

• FC addon manager could use a Details pane instead of linking the user to the github page
• Each FC Addon could be represented by an icon as well.
• Progress bar could be a spinning FC gears

Just for reference, here is QGIS's (v.2.99) plugin manager:

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[Kunda1]

Updated the original post.

[microelly2]

The simplest way is to add some urls to the configuration and open them in a FreeCAD WebGui on demand.
the urls can link to images, videos or pages with text.

example

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import WebGui
WebGui.openBrowser("http://freecadbuch.de/doxygen/geodat/html/index.html")

[Kunda1]

The simplest way is to add some urls to the configuration and open them in a FreeCAD WebGui on demand.
the urls can link to images, videos or pages with text.

example

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import WebGui
WebGui.openBrowser("http://freecadbuch.de/doxygen/geodat/html/index.html")

Although that may be a nice fix in the short-term eventually all add-on authors will be asked to brandish a screenshot= or screencast field in their add-on config file: see https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-addo ... -304726479

[microelly2]

Although that may be a nice fix in the short-term eventually all add-on authors will be asked to brandish a screenshot= or screencast field in their add-on config file: see https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-addo ... -304726479

Intersting, I did not read this issue discussion

my first ideas
Is there an assistant who supports me to fill/generate the metafile
why this format and not yaml?

[Kunda1]

Although that may be a nice fix in the short-term eventually all add-on authors will be asked to brandish a screenshot= or screencast field in their add-on config file: see https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-addo ... -304726479

Intersting, I did not read this issue discussion

my first ideas
Is there an assistant who supports me to fill/generate the metafile
why this format and not yaml?

@microelly2 it's discussed in the github thread. Essentially this is how QGIS does it and they have a parser for it.

I'll be happy to help you create this file. If you want i can submit PRs to your repos?

[Kunda1]

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[Kunda1]

https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 49#p199149