Plugin manager (Was: search bar floats)

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Fri July 2 2004 10:31, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> El 20:06, giovedì 01 luglio 2004, Mikolaj Machowski escribió:
> > Dnia czwartek, 1 lipca 2004 18:02, Luciano Montanaro napisał:
> > > > Feature or bug?
> > >
> > > I'd say bug. I too find the bar is a bit too eager to popup. I have
> > > changed its .rc file in my local copy to make it separate, and to be
> > > able to disable it from the settings menu, but it pops up even if I try
> > > to disable it.
> > > I think there should be a way to disable the bar, as 	there is for the
> > > rellink bar (of which, on the other hand, I have three copies in my
> > > konqueror window, currently:-(, so that too may need some fix.).
> >
> > I'd say it is part of wider problem: toolbars in KDE (and especially in
> > Konq) can be completely unpredictable. Also ways to control them are too
> > limited - MS-Office is perfect.
>
> There are two problems, actually. One is that, as you say, there is no way
> to lay out the toolbars, and keep them the way you prefer in a predictable
> way. The other is that there is no way to enable/disable Konqueror plugins.
> Since the number of Konqueror plugins is growing, this is beginning to be a
> problem. The most cited unwanted plugin is the Cervisia part - which I find
> quite valuable, but which freaks out our usability team...

It should really not be too hard to write a plugin manager that lists all 
available plugins for the application and allows you to disable/enable 
individual plugins.

Would be a huge usability improvement IMO.

Cheers,
Waldo
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