Re: no "deactivate" button (gentoo)

> >>> 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?
[snip]
> 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.

On my Fedora system it is /usr/lib64/abiword-2.6/plugins/
(or /usr/lib/abiword-2.6/plugins/ if you are on a 32 bit machine). You
can just delete the specific plugin library there if you really don't
want to load it.

  Marc

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Received on Fri Jan 9 12:34:33 2009