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

[ricardo lafuente <bollecs sollec org>]

On 1/9/10 15:47 , Jesse van den Kieboom wrote:
> 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).

Oh, thanks for pointing me the right way. I've just left a comment on an 
existing feature request at the Gedit Bugzilla (#392023), which should 
have been my first step before coming to the mailing list -- sorry about 
that.

> 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.

Yes, it does sound quite convoluted -- i couldn't even find docs on how 
to achieve that. I'll be just crossing my fingers and hope that someone 
can lend their precious time to that feature request. In the meantime, 
thanks a ton for all your great work in Gedit, i've been recently 
marveling at how friendly the plug-in API is (and the rest of the 
application as well).

:r