[oXygen-user] Enabling/disabling plugins

[Oxygen XML Editor Support]

Hi Florent,

An undocumented feature that we have is that if in your plugin's 
directory you create a "plugin.disable" file (content is not important, 
can be empty) then that particular plugin will not be loaded by Oxygen.

We'll try to add some documentation for it and maybe in a future version 
also provide a more elegant way via the Preferences dialog of disabling 
plugins.

In either way, Oxygen will need to be restarted after the enabled state 
of a plugin changes.

Regards,
Radu

Radu Coravu
<oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

On 2/18/2012 2:05 AM, Florent Georges wrote:
>    Hi,
>
>    While working on plugins, I miss the ability to be able to enabling
> or disabling specific plugins.  I maybe missed something, but as far
> as I see, once a plugin is installed in oXygen plugins dir, the only
> way to disable it is to delete the plugin dir.  This is a bit radical.
>
>    If there is no such possibility, it would probably be worth adding a
> flag in the Plugins section in the config panel.  The ideal would be
> to not need a restart, but having to restart is not cricial for the
> final user.
>
>    Although using the config panel is convenient, being able to enable/
> disable a plugin in its plugin.xml would be ok I guess (e.g. by adding
> a new boolean attribute /plugin/@enabled).
>
>    Regards,
>