How desactivate some plugins in a custom IDE distribution ?
Hi,
We are working on a final IDE distribution using PyCharm as a model.
The final distribution is coming with a lot pre-installed plugins.
Is there a way to :
1. Not preinstalled some them
2. Desactivate some of them
In the META-INF/MyIdePlugin.xml, they seems to be installed by the following includes:
<xi:include href="/META-INF/PlatformLangPlugin.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/idea-plugin/*)"/>
<xi:include href="/META-INF/XmlPlugin.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/idea-plugin/*)"/>
I tried to remove them but they are a mixed of really mandatory plugins (core) and optional (like git).
As our distribution will be use by non-developers, it's better for us to remove (or disable) by default all the plugins that could create a more complex interface (like Git or Mercurial menus and behavior).
In the same way could we hide some Tool Windows from the Side bar like 'Version Control' or 'Services' ?
Thanks,
Philippe
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You can customize bundled plugins via `org.jetbrains.intellij.build.ProductModulesLayout#getBundledPluginModules`, see `org/jetbrains/intellij/build/pycharm/PyCharmCommunityProperties.kt:31`
Toolwindows: some are part of platform and in most cases are not removable as they represent base infrastructure. Tool windows from plugins will obviously not be shown once unbundled.
Thanks