[Qgis-developer] set plugin enabled by default

[Stefan Kiefer]

Hi Borys,
thanks for your answer.
that might be a way I also had in mind. Otherwise in Windows
environments the config is written to the registry. I would like to
avoid interferring with the registry. Whereas that would be manageable
with an installer, in Linux environments one needs to manipulate the
config file as you mentioned. Manipulating this file with an installer
would not be as easy. Otherwise, either the config file as well as the
registry entries exist only when Qgis was run first. So I have to
consider this as well.
Also with Linux there could be an - unlikly - issue that somone has
changed the QT-config path settings, Whereas this is not to expect.

Anyway, I believe I need a more sophisticated way, like setting a flag
while Qgis loads all the plugins. Or a workaround, like activating my
plugin with one of the default plugins. Manipulating the default plugins
might be the ultimo ratio, because I would neither to change this
plugins (in favor of avoiding instabilities) nor risk to overwrite
possible changes or updates on the users machine!

Otherwise, does anyone know whether  there is a flag or a property or
any way to enable/disable plugins programmatical, let's say from another
plugin?

cheers

Stefan

Am Montag, den 01.03.2010, 13:57 +0100 schrieb Borys Jurgiel:

> Dnia poniedziałek, 1 marca 2010 o 13:24:56 Stefan Kiefer napisał(a):
> > Hi,
> > thanks a lot for the immediate answers. What you all say is true for
> > plugins installed from a respository, resp. with the plugin-installer.
> > What I need is when I put a custom plugin (one I made by myself) to the
> > qgis/python/plugins-folder. Hence, if I do that the plugin can be
> > activated in the pluginmanager, but is not activated by default.
> > The way is that one get an installer (in this case a selfextractable
> > file) and the plugin gets copied to the plugins folder. Unfortunately
> > then the user is forced to search in the pluginmanager for the new
> > plugin to activate it. I need to realize this more comfortable, i.e.
> > without confronting the user to open the plugin installer nor the
> > manager ...
> 
> Your installer can enable the plugin in Qgis settings from outside Qgis. It's 
> accessible from Qt via QSettings as well as directly in the file:
> ~/.config/QuantumGIS/QGIS.conf 
> on Linux and in similar path in the windows Registry.
> 
> The only thing you need to do is to go to the PythonPlugins section
> and set your_plugin_module key to true.
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