Re: [Tiki-devel] A default for the "Except included plugins" setting

Again: Adrien will work with you to turn these ideas into a merge request here: https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests

Thanks!

Marc


On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 13:39:27 +0100 Tiki developers [email protected] said

> Am Dienstag, dem 21.02.2023 um 11:33 +0000 schrieb Jonny Bradley via
> TikiWiki-devel:
> > Hi again
> > 
> > This was another thread that turned into an unfeasible complete rewrite of
> > the plugin system - if you want these plugins added simply as the default
> > for searchable plugins i can do that (or you can, glad to help get you
> > started!)
> 
> There were thought of introducing a common base class for wiki plugins. This
> may be infeasible.
> 
> Then there was the idea to add an optional option to the result of the
> wikiplugin_..._info() function. Let's call it "searchable". The default
> would be "no". This by-plugin searchability setting could be overruled by
> the two settings in the wiki control panel - "include in search" and
> "exclude in search". We already have those two, they're just named
> differently (one's called "Except included plugins"). This doesn't look
> infeasible to me. In contrary, it looks like a simple and clean solution.
> 
> Then there's the last choice, namely just introduce a default value for the
> "Except included plugins" setting. This should be no effort at all (if you
> know your way in the tiki sources). And it would be much better than the
> current state of affairs.
> 
> Cheers,
> Volker
> 
> 
> > 
> > jonny
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > On 17 Jan 2023, at 19:12, Volker Wysk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi.
> > > 
> > > I've begun to make an exhaustive default list of plugins, whose bodies
> > > should be searchable. I've gone through the files in the lib/wiki-plugins
> > > directory. But after 25%, I've given up. Many of the plugins are poorly
> > > documented or not documented at all. Some don't have the "body" field, but
> > > DO require a body. You can see it in the examples (for plugins with
> > > examples). Many are very special or very advanced. For some I couldn't
> > > figure out if they should be searchable.
> > > 
> > > So I made a limited list of plugins, which should be searchable. It can
> > > serve as a default for the "Except included plugins" setting. I've chosen
> > > general-purpose plugins, no special or advanced ones.
> > > 
> > > Here is the list:
> > > 
> > >
> > attach,box,center,code,div,file,files,font,footnote,indent,markdown,quote,sort,sub,sup
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Volker
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