From: guylinton <guy...@gm...> - 2010-03-31 18:29:56
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Thanks for fixing the reload of plugin under #3715. However, there still seem to be problems. Benny Malengier wrote: > > > You can force the load of a registered plugin via the single load > button. I noticed the other load button too. Doug added that I think. > Not sure why he added it. > > So the first tab is all registered plugins, the second tab the plugins > that have already loaded, and where hence an error might have happened > on load. The error is available from the second tab. > > Benny > I assumed that selecting a plugin report and clicking load would force the reload of that plugin. But this does not seem to be the case. You seem to have to reload everything. Also, if a plugin report fails, producing an error dialogue box, dismissing that dialogue leaves the half completed progress bar still showing. I am not sure whether the plugin is still believed to be in use at that point or not. I am afraid I don't really understand the concepts behind the plugin manager, and it is still not clear from the wiki: I don't understand what the difference between the tabs on the plugin manager is. The wiki page does not really explain. Why does the 'loaded' tab not show all the plugins that are mentioned in the first tab, and which appear to be loaded? When I right click on the Gramplets page, it shows Gramplets that are not shown as loaded, but then when I select one, it becomes loaded on the loaded plugins page, so what is the point of the plugin manager to handle loading. What governs whether something appears on any one of the three tabs? Sorry, but I am missing so much in the conceptual model that I don't know what questions to ask. Could you also please explain somewhere on the plugins wiki page about the -O flag in the gramps startup file, because the dialogues do not appear to be what some users will see. Regards Tim. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/plugin-manager-tp27863973p28099960.html Sent from the GRAMPS - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |