search

dnaq / plover-machine-hid

POC Plover plugin and firmware for the Plover HID protocol
MIT License
24 stars 8 forks source link

It'd be great if this was in the plugin manager. #4

Closed kybernetikos closed 1 year ago

kybernetikos commented 1 year ago

The latest Plovers ship with a plugin manager which makes installing plugins a lot easier.

As far as I can tell, the only requirement is that the plugin is published to PyPI, then we can submit a PR for this repository https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover_plugins_registry

This plugin has been really good to use with the corne-ish zen that I have. We've been chatting about it on the steno-talk channel in the lowprokb.ca discord.

dnaq commented 1 year ago

It would. The main issue is that the plugin isn’t self-contained, it requires a non python library to be installed and available on the host, so just having it in the plugin manager would probably lead to quite a bit of confusion for many people.

I tried getting plover to open up to adding it to the main plover distribution quite a while ago, but that discussion never took off.

dnaq commented 1 year ago

Yeah, that’s the library in question (on linux). No worries, hope you’ll have good use for it, it would have been nice to have gotten it into plover core, and that would probably have helped with getting it into zmk/qmk as well, but it is what it is.