Add user level plug-ins

[Wavesonics]

Describe the project you are working on

several different projects

Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project

I must re-install certain plugins for each project that i'm working on. And more so, those plugins aren't necessarily applicable to all users of the project, so I have to prevent them from being checked in to the repo.

Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation

Plugins such as Wakatime or TODO Manager are more so user environment than project related. I want them in every project that I open.

The solution I'm thinking of would be to have a plugins folder in the user's godot directory.

Any plugin in that directory would be loaded for every project.

Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams

On windows we could add a folder in the user's AppData directory:
C:\Users\FooBar\AppData\Roaming\Godot\plugins

Then you'd install a plugin as such:
C:\Users\FooBar\AppData\Roaming\Godot\plugins\WakkaTime\plugin.gd

We'd need a little bit of new UI.

1. When installing a plugin from the Asset Library, there would probably need to be an option to install to user instead of project.
2. Editor Settings would need a way to manage user level plugins. Show all of them, Enable/disable, delete.

If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?

Not that I can think of.

Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?

I think it would have to be core in order to work.

[hilfazer]

I was about to make the same suggestion. I have the same issue specifically with a TODO addon, which isn't related to how my projects work but rather how i am working on them.

[Calinou]

Duplicate of #831.