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Discussion about UX improvements for Spyder 5 and beyond
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Visual Plugin Manager needed for Spyder #54

Open richlysakowski opened 3 years ago

richlysakowski commented 3 years ago

A simpler visual GUI for managing plugins is needed in Spyder... a GUI plugin for managing plugins (8^)).

Right now I have to hack the command line with conda to get information about installed plugins and it is tedious.

Perhaps put another menu under the "Tools... Preferences" menu and/or as another panel inside the Preferences dialog as a "Plugins" menu item in the left-hand navigator.

This will let people see what their current configurations are for Spyder plugins. It will help for reporting on installed plugins too, because a "send to Spyder team" button could be added right there to do context-sensitive reporting.

It will also help to extend the Spyder architecture to accommodate more plugins more easily.

Please consider enhancing the plugin interface to include a better GUI for managing plugins.

Thank you.

ccordoba12 commented 3 years ago

Hey @richdevboston, thanks for reporting. Thanks a lot for the suggestion, we also agree with you and are discussing about how to add such an interface for Spyder 6, to be released next year.

ccordoba12 commented 3 years ago

I'm going to move your issue to this repo

https://github.com/spyder-ide/ux-improvements/

because that's where we discuss interface improvements.