[Geany] Location of plugins

[Enrico Tröger]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:41:15 +0800, LUK ShunTim
<shuntim.luk at polyu.edu.hk> wrote:

>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.

Hm, when setting an extra path for plugins to look up I really think
this should go in the preferences dialogif we want to be in the GUI at
all. At least it shouldn't be in the plugin manager dialog, IMO.

Regards,
Enrico

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