[PD-dev] Gui plugins management (Was: I have 3 broken installs)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On 03/03/2013 08:46 AM, András Murányi wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:
> 
>>
>> Sounds like -noplugins would be a good idea, but it does not exist.  None
>> of
>> those flags will disable plugins in the user folders (~/pd-externals).
>>
>> You shouldn't need a Recent Files plugin any more with 0.43.4, its
>> included on
>> all platforms.  But maybe its not as good as the plugin version?
>>
>>
> The plugin overwrites the original ::pd_menus::update_recentfiles_on_menu
> so I guess it's aiming to do something better.
> 
> About the -noplugins option: yes it would be nice, and btw, I've just
> realised that the planned evolution of plugins-plugin to use pd::guiprefs
> instead of "/disabled" folders cannot be done in a plugin form but needs
> the mechanism to go into pd-gui.tcl
> This sounds like a good case to overhaul the plugin loading code a bit.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> 
> András

I'm happy to review patch submissions for this, the plugins handling certainly
can be improved.  What do you have in mind?

.hc