GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 392023
Load plugins on startup with a command line option.
Last modified: 2020-11-24 09:59:18 UTC
It would be great if we can load or unload plugins with a command-line option, e.g. --with-plugins, so that we can handle some kinds of profiles. Use case: If you want to write or edit a LaTex File, you want to load the LaTex-plugin automaticlly. If you want to read or write a simple Textfile you dosn't want to load the LaTex-Plugin. With a command-line option we can create special .desktop files, to start a special gedit profile, e.g. gedit-tex, gedit-vim ...
Oops. I ALMOST created a duplicate bug. Gedit is a remarkably flexible text editor thanks to all of the plugins available for it. Combined with the range of configuration options, it can really become all sorts of things. Problems arise, then, when a Python addict interested in LATeX, one day, just wants a text editor :) Similar functionality (configuration profiles) is achieved in GNOME Terminal, so interface could be copied from there.
It would be grand to have the possibility of loading plug-ins from the command line. Not only would it allow for the above mentioned usage profiles (LaTeX, code editing...), but it would enable the creation of whole applications on top of Gedit -- an IDE, for instance, which is exactly what i'm doing (by means of a plug-in). By supporting profiles, we could run 'custom' versions of Gedit out-of-the-box with a set of pre-loaded plug-ins. So yes, there's people out here who would love this to happen :-)
One idea might be to see to fit this in when we move to GSettings instead of using GConf to store settings directly. We might even propose some kind of native profile support in GSettings. In any case the port would be a good opportunity to implement this functionality.
Mass-closing of all gedit bugzilla tickets. Special "code" to find again all those gedit bugzilla tickets that were open before the mass-closing: 2bfe1b0590a78457e1f1a6a90fb975f5878cb60064ccfe1d7db76ca0da52f0f3 By searching the above sha256sum in bugzilla, the gedit contributors can find again the tickets. We may be interested to do so when we work on a specific area of the code, to at least know the known problems and possible enhancements. We do this mass-closing because bugzilla.gnome.org is being replaced by gitlab.gnome.org.