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

[András Murányi]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:

> 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
>

basically, implementing a -noplugins option, and wiring plugins preferences
to pd::guiprefs

András
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