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New Plugins settings category and two new permission states

Settings now has a dedicated Plugins category, and permission choices expand from just Allowed/Not allowed to also include Switch automatically and Ask each time

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Settings now has a dedicated Plugins category, and permission choices expand from just Allowed/Not allowed to also include Switch automatically and Ask each time

What

  • The settings UI's list of categories (Display, Input & controls, Connections, Advanced, Experimental, Internal, etc.) gains a new 'Plugins' category. It starts out empty of built-in setting ids and is meant to be populated dynamically for plugin-specific (dotted) setting ids.
  • The set of recognized permission-mode choices used elsewhere in the settings UI grows from two options (Allowed, Not allowed) to four, adding 'Switch automatically' and 'Ask each time'.

Why

This lays groundwork for plugins to expose their own settings in a dedicated place, and gives permission-related settings finer-grained choices than a simple allow/deny toggle.

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The writer flagged doubtThe finding doesn't specify which permission prompts or settings surface these new choices, or what each one precisely does.

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