[Stellarium-pubdevel] Discoverability of plugins

[Matthew G. <mat...@gm...>]

We need something in the GUI which users can use to discover plugins.

I'd like to know what others reading this list think of this.  I'm just sort 
of splurging my first thoughts into this post:

* We need a plugin management screen, perhaps as a tab in the config window.  
Should have option for enabling/disabling plugins.  This would also update 
the module.ini file to change if the plugin is loaded at start.

Hopefully it wouldn't look like the pidgin plugins config dialog, which is a 
UI disaster!

* Plugins authors might want a configuration page.  The plugin management 
page might provide a "config" button which opens a config dialog for the 
plugin if it provides one.

* Plugins should provide a getHelpText() function which, if it returns 
anything, will be used to document keys and so on in the help dialog.

* Plugins should somehow have the option to add buttons to the toolbar(s).

* There's a problem with key bindings if we start to use a lot of plugins.  
We need some way to mediate conflicts of this kind.

Let me know what you think.
Matthew