I think the plugin installing experience can be smoother, comparing to vscode or obsidian’s
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Hi @linonetwo there are definitely improvements to be made here.
Firstly, one could make a case for pulling $:/Plugins out of $:/ControlPanel so that it can be more readily used as a standalone tiddler, and to provide a page control button to summon it. (We’d probably still include the plugins tab in control panel for backwards compatibility).
Secondly, we definitely need a quicker way to check all loaded plugin libraries for updates. For privacy reasons, the check should be manually initiated by default, but we could support opt-in automated checking at startup.
One consideration we have versus VS Code is those privacy concerns: we wouldn’t want to initiate network requests without explicit user intervention (the concern being that those network requests could reveal what somebody is doing).
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