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

[Jesse van den Kieboom <jessevdk gnome org>]

ricardo lafuente wrote:
> 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.)
>   
No, this is not possible at the moment. The plugins engine is private 
API and not available to plugins. There have been some thoughts on 
'profile' support, in which you can save a certain configuration of 
gedit and simply do something like 'gedit --profile web', but it has not 
been implemented (and it would require non trivial changes in the core).

Now, if you really want to make this work and want to get your hands 
dirty, you could maybe launch a separate gconf daemon for such a gedit 
process and thus have one set of specific settings not affecting others. 
It should be doable, but it certainly a very dirty hack.


Jesse

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