Re: [gedit-list] Dynamic loading of plug-ins?

[ricardo lafuente <bollecs sollec org>]

On 1/9/10 12:42 , Jesse van den Kieboom wrote:
> ricardo lafuente wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was wondering if it is possible to call Gedit specifying which
>> plug-ins should be active.
>>   
> It's not possible to specify them on the command line, but you could
> change them in gconf where its stored which ones are activated. So, you
> could write a little script that takes as an argument which plugins to
> enable, and then use gconftool-2 to set the key
> '/apps/gedit-2/plugins/active-plugins' which holds the active plugins.
> 
> Note that you just change the global settings with this, which also
> means that any running gedit will deactivate/activate the new setting
> and any new gedit processes will also use this setting.
> 
> 

Hi Jesse, thanks for the quick response!

This solution indeed carries the issue of affecting all instances of
Gedit... is there any way to activate/deactivate plugins from inside
Gedit, e.g. through a Python call in a plug-in? (wishful thinking... but
worth asking i guess.)