[Paraview] Patch for pqPluginManager to better readability

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Mike,

You make a good point about the readability of the dialog.
http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=10272

However as far as adding more directories to search by default or to
load plugins from bin directly, you could always use the 'auto-load'
setting to allow the user to mark plugins to load at startup.

Utkarsh

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Michael Jackson
<mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
> I was trying to diagnose why ParaView was not loading some of my plugins and
> it occurred to me that the dialog box for loading plugins, while somewhat
> verbose, is not that easy to interpret:
>
> ParaView.app/Contents/MacOS/../Plugins;ParaView.app/Contents/MacOS/../../Plugins.
>
>  I was thinking it would be easier if it just read:
>
> [Path To ParaView]/ParaView.app/Contents/Plugins;[Path To ParaView]/Plugins;
>
> So in pqPluginManager.cxx, down around line 471 I have the following:
>
> #if defined (Q_OS_MAC)
> //Look in the Application Package "ParaView.app/Contents/Plugins
> QDir appDir (QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath());
> appDir.cdUp();
> pv_plugin_path += appDir.absolutePath() + QDir::separator() + "Plugins;";
> //Look for a folder called "Plugins" at the same level as ParaView.app
> appDir.cdUp();
> appDir.cdUp();
> pv_plugin_path += appDir.absolutePath() + QDir::separator() + "Plugins;";
> //Look for a plugins at the same level as ParaView.app
> pv_plugin_path += appDir.absolutePath() + QDir::separator() + ";";
> #else
>    pv_plugin_path += QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath() +
> QDir::separator()
>      + "plugins";
> #endif
>
> Thoughts from anyone?
>
> Also, I noticed that while plugins are built into the
> $PARAVIEW_BINARY_DIR/bin they are not automatically loaded from there? In
> the patch above, an additional line is there to add this directory to the
> list of directories to check. At least on OS X, this makes it easier to
> debug plugins? Or am I missing something completely? I know about
> PV_PLUGIN_PATH but really consider that a hack. Thoughts?
>
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