Thanks for your input, Jed! I agree about not seeing too many plugins in practice (although my own wiki is my only experience), but I think a standard set of practices would be nice to rally around. I think the idea of a "Plugin Settings" in the control panel would be a great way to unify various plugins' settings, although I admit I don't see *too* many plugins that actually have configuration!
-Rob On Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at 8:48:51 AM UTC-5, Jed Carty wrote: > > I haven't come up with a good solution for the placement. I have been > using a separate tab in the $:/ControlPanel, but it gets crowded very > quickly, particularly on small screens. > > I think that perhaps we could make a convention where we make a Plugins > Settings tab in the control panel and then add tabs under that for each > plugin. It would also be crowded but that seems like less of a problem. > > For many plugins there aren't a lot of configurations options so just > having the settings in the plugin tiddler is good, but I think that a more > consistent set of guidelines would be good. > > And I think that we should always store configuration in tiddlers prefixed > with something specific to the plugin. If it is persistent data I try to > use a prefix like $:/data/OokTech/Bob/ and for settings I try to use a > prefix like like $:/settings/OokTech/Bob/ > > So far in my experience I haven't had many wikis that have enough plugins > to cause trouble just putting the configuration in a control panel tab so > it hasn't been an urgent concern for me, but if enough people are > interested in coming up with a consistent set of guidelines I will happily > help develop and follow them. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/dd10aec4-7e31-48d2-b46b-ac37e7d4eb31%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
