Activating more plugins by default in next 1.9 release

Hi,

I think it might be a good idea to activate more plugins by default. I 
guess there are two reasons why a minimal plugin set on launch exists, 
one is the belief that that users should configure the plugins they want 
themselves, the second is that the plugins may (originally at least) 
have not been stable.

A number of plugins that bring what are arguably core features in 1.9 
have now been in use for a long time and should be relatively bug free. 
Maybe it's time to consider enabling these by default? I know one of the 
complaints of most new users is that Freevo is difficult to configure. 
Enabling more features that are expected seems to make sense. On the 
balance of things it's probably more advantageous to let those users who 
don't want certain plugins enabled to explicitly remove them in their 
local_conf.py rather than force new users to search for and learn how to 
enable all the features they need.

Looking just at the TV features offered by Freevo 1.x plugins I'd say 
there's a case to enable the following by default to give a 'full' user 
experience out of the box.

    plugin.activate('tv.categories')
    plugin.activate('tv.genre')
    plugin.activate('tv.search_programs')
    plugin.activate('tv.recordings_manager')
    plugin.activate('tv.view_favorites')
    plugin.activate('tv.remind')


I haven't looked at the other plugin areas and I'm sure there will be 
some views here about what should and shouldn't be activated but I 
thought I'd open it up to the list. What do you think? Would Freevo 
better serve it's users by having more plugins enabled by default or 
should the minimal approach with users left to figure things out for 
themselves remain?

John

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