Either way , it looks like some much better documenting of existing
plugins needs to be done. 5 of the six you listed are plugins I have
never seen in Freevo and really have not idea what they do. I suspect
that may be true for many other users. I know there are a lot of
useful plugins but they either have very poor descriptions and or poor
directions on how to setup.
Evan
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:25 PM, John Molohan <john.molo...@gcd.ie> wrote:
> 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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