[Geany] Location of plugins

[LUK ShunTim]

Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:08:55 +0800, LUK ShunTim
> <shuntim.luk at polyu.edu.hk> wrote:
> 
>> Enrico Tröger wrote:
>>>>> Just for my interest, what do you want to do?
>>>> Say geany is installed via some distribution package mechanism, apt,
>>>> rpm, whatever and the system admin can make locally compiled plugins
>>>> available for all users in a "local" place, maybe under
>>>> /usr/local/lib/geany.
>>> We surely can add support for reading other directories as well. The
>>> question is probably just how to realise it best. I think of an
>>> environment variable like GEAY_PLUGIN_PATH or a command line switch.
>>> Or even a hidden preference, which is maybe the most easy one to use.
>> Thanks, hope that it's not too much work. I don't mind either, as long
>> as it's documented.
>>
>> Maybe it'd most convenient if there's a button under in the Tools |
>> Plugin Manager pop-up window that a user can click to set them up,
> 
> Do you mean a button to set an extra path to look for plugins or a
> button to directly open a plugin's .so file?

The former.

Regards,
ST
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