{"version":"2.1.269","anchor":"new-plugins-settings-categorytab","canonical_anchor":"new-permission-states-switch-automatically-and-ask-each-t","heading":"New Plugins settings category and two new permission states","tier":"use","area":"Settings","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.269\/e\/new-plugins-settings-categorytab","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.269","markdown":"### New Plugins settings category and two new permission states\n\nSettings now has a dedicated Plugins category, and permission choices expand from just Allowed\/Not allowed to also include Switch automatically and Ask each time\n\n**Unclear.** The category currently has no settings in it, so its practical effect for users isn't yet visible.\n\n**What**\n\n- 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.\n\n- 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'.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis 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.\n\n- Area: Settings\n- Names: `Plugins`\n- Tier: Use it now\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}