Re: no "deactivate" button (gentoo)

Noah Ready-Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:20 AM, J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 02:39 -0500, Noah Ready-Campbell wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've been more or less going crazy over this -- there is no
>>> "deactivate" button in my Tools->Plugins dialog (from my googling, it
>>> appears this button in fact does exist for some people, right??).
>>> Does anyone know why this might be?
>> In AbiWord 2.6, the disabling of plugins has been removed/disabled, due
>> to continued problems with the functionality. It might/might not come
>> back in the future.
>
> Is there a way to disable a specific plugin? Perhaps by just deleting
> its directory? And also do you happen to know the default directory
> for plugins? When I click "Add plugin", it opens my home directory,
> which, as far as I can tell, does not have AbiWord plugins in it (only
> my profile is in .AbiSuite), though I've read that, at least at one
> time, it opened the default directory.
>
>>> I also have another (unrelated??) problem, but I thought maybe it
>>> would be a clue. When I go to Edit->Preferences->Spell Checking,
>>> "Highlight misspelled words", "Always suggest corrections", and
>>> "Suggest from main dictionaries only" are grayed out and unchecked.
>>> However, AbiWord does highlight misspelled words and provide
>>> suggestions when I right-click on a misspelled word.
>> I never actually looked at those checkboxed... maybe they just are not
>> hooked up at all, who knows :) Any other dev with more insights?
>
> Haha, alright -- I guess if the functionality is there, I shouldn't
> worry about it.
>
> Thank you very much!
> Noah
>
If you really have a need to disable a plugin, you can remove it from
/usr/share/abiword-2.6/plugins though in most cases I'm not sure why
you'd want to do this. There isn't really a speed penalty - just have
all the plugins installed in case you want to use them.

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