"Go to the installation directory" in the package manager

Serengeti (Rhino WIP)
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Hello,
Can you add a button/context menu to open the directory where a plugin is installed by the package manager?
Thanks, jmv

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All info regarding installations can be found in pluginmanager, what benefit would it have to add this to packagemanager?

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Exact ! But this is only good for Rhino plugins.
Plugins for Grasshopper are missing from the PluginManager.
I’ve had exactly three problems since Yak’s been here.

  • Rarely, for reasons unknown to me, there are problems loading, and I have to manually uninstall a plugin.
  • Regularly I deactivate a Grasshopper plugin with a “*.no6” file, often in the development phase. Before yak it was easy, there was the menu “File > Special folder >…”
  • Often I refer to the “*.gha” library directly in my C# scripts (Clipper, Kangaroo, …). Same here, access is easy with the old method, much less with the new locations.

And personally, I like to know what is saved on my computer. On this point the package manager is too obscure.
jmv

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afaik, all packages, including gh are installed in the same directory, so it’s not that obscure.

%appdata%\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\7.0

I would opt to eventually integrate pluginmanager and packagemanger into one tool.

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Yes, I actually do that.
Adding a button to quickly access the directory doesn’t seem like a very bold request to me.

It sounds good !

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I logged this as RH-71876 wish: add link/button to packagemanager that brings you to the installation directory.

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