Implement a Command Palette into QGis

[qgib]

Author Name: Stephen Sinclair (Stephen Sinclair) Original Redmine Issue: 18752

Redmine category:gui

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Hi maintainers, and thank you for this outstanding software. Although not new to map making, I am more of a website developer now. I recently installed QGis 3.01 on my Ubuntu machine and learned it using the outstanding CUNY training by Frank Donnelly. Now up to the point. Even with a well written manual, one gets confused with the abundance of functions in QGis. I also find the icons difficult to read, even when compared to the ones in the manual. This is, IMHO, a MS Office GUI like approach and not effective enough. It may also prevent newbies to dive deeper into the software. As a developer, I have to use editors which are also full of functions. All of them (think: VS Code, Atom, SublimeText) have a textual Command Palette:

allowing quick access to any function in the software and its plugins by typing a substring of their name keeping track in a list of the most frequently used functions I think it would be an interesting idea to develop that function into QGis as it allows much faster access to the functions used. It could be inplemented either as a core module or as a plugin. Hope this helps. Stephen

[kannes]

Is the processing toolbox enough for you? You can enable it by pressing Ctrl-Alt-T or using the menu. It lets the user filter all available processing commands easily.

[anderso]

The locator bar in the bottom left is probably the QGIS equivalent of a command palette, use Ctrl+K.