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

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

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On 2013-03-27 21:12, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> I think that a -noplugins flag is a no brainer, that should be
> included.  I'm still on the fence about adding the ability to
> disable plugins via the interface.  The model so far for installing
> and disabling externals, plugins, etc. is putting them in the
> user-installed folder or moving them out of that folder.  Its very
> simple and easy to maintain.

definitely not.

i find myself cursing everytime i want to use/not use a given gui-plugin.

moving files around is _not_ a way to configure your system.
at least i know of no system that is configured like that;
not that there *are* some system settings that work like that (`find
/etc -type d -name "*.d") but those are not for user-preferences that
might change today *and* tomorrow.

also, there might be a reason why Pd-extended switched from loading
all libraries by default to a scheme, where the user has to
explicitely enable a given feature.
taking your gui-plugins argument to PdX, we could have simply told the
users to just move all the objects/externals they don't want to use to
a save place (and turn off the "couldn't find" errors)

> I have no objections for adding the possibility to allow plugin
> management in a plugin, but I'm not sure about including it by
> default.

it's simply not possible to unload a given plugin with a plugin that
is loaded afterwards. (at least not until all the gui-plugins
implement an unloading mechanism).

if we have the opportunity to get a built-in gui-plugins management
instead of the  "last-files" i'm all for it (as the latter can be
easily implemented as a plugin, unlike the former)

fgmasdr
IOhannes
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