Plugins Manager - Additional Sort By Criteria

[Saijin-Naib]

Feature description. I think additional Sort By criteria might be helpful for organizing installed plugins, as well as not-yet installed plugins.

For instance:

• Sort By Load Time Apparently logged by QGIS internally, exposed via Plugin Load Times plugin.
• Sort By Recently Updated Could be beneficial to check for new release notes
• Sort By Installed Size Track down any plugins who might be packing heavy dependencies
• Sort By Active State Very nice to have when filtering through a long list of installed plugins to see which you have enabled or not
• Sort By Processing Integration I find that I mostly only wish to have plugins which can be exposed via Processing enabled. If this is a flag in the manifest or something else easy to detect, this could be great to help people expose which plugins can be used for processing models, etc.

Additional context

[Gustry]

Sort By Processing Integration I find that I mostly only wish to have plugins which can be exposed via Processing enabled. If this is a flag in the manifest or something else easy to detect, this could be great to help people expose which plugins can be used for processing models, etc.

Indeed, this would encourage people to write Processing provider. There is the flag hasProcessingProvider in the metadata.txt for that. BTW, this could be shown in the HTML description on the right.

[Saijin-Naib]

Core Plugins

These are by nature included by default and typically provide solid baseline of functionality. In some cases, better alternatives can be installed to supercede them, but it might be helpful to have a means to filter by Core Plugins to revert back to the Out Of Box state, for instance.

[ismailsunni]

Ordered by update date and created date are already implemented on QGIS 3.22 and master.