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Manual rescan is required to reveal some plugins in the Plugin Manager #3279

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dozzzzer opened this issue Jul 22, 2022 · 4 comments · Fixed by #3359
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Manual rescan is required to reveal some plugins in the Plugin Manager #3279

dozzzzer opened this issue Jul 22, 2022 · 4 comments · Fixed by #3359
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bug An error, undesired behaviour, or missed functionality P2 High priority PluginManager plugins Bugs with external plugins, such as VSTs, LV2, Vamp and Nyquist.
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dozzzzer commented Jul 22, 2022

Describe the bug
Some plugins are shipped through a standalone app used to install, manage, and update plugins and licenses (e.g. Waves plugins are shipped through Waves Central these days). When installing plugins using this app, Audacity only sees the plugins that were installed initially and doesn't see the consequent ones unless the pluginregistry.cfg is removed.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Install Waves Central
  2. Select a plugin in it and install
  3. Run Audacity and see it being enabled
  4. Install one or more plugins in Waves Central
  5. Re-run Audacity to see if it picks them up

Actual behavior
No newly added plugins are added to Plugin Manager

Expected behavior
After discussing with @crsib it was agreed that the best possible option here would be to add an option to manually rescan the plugins by adding the 'Rescan' button into the Plugin Manager dialog.

@dozzzzer dozzzzer added bug An error, undesired behaviour, or missed functionality P2 High priority plugins Bugs with external plugins, such as VSTs, LV2, Vamp and Nyquist. PluginManager labels Jul 22, 2022
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dozzzzer commented Jul 22, 2022

The only question left is the placement of the button within Plugin Manager.
@Tantacrul what do you reckon: left or right? Or anywhere else maybe?

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I would have thought on the left, simply due to space. You don't want to overwhelm poor 'OK' and 'Cancel' 😄

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crsib commented Jul 22, 2022

I think this would be a good task for Kit, but we will see how it goes

@ksoze95 ksoze95 self-assigned this Aug 1, 2022
@AnitaBats AnitaBats added this to the Audacity 3.2 milestone Aug 30, 2022
@dozzzzer dozzzzer self-assigned this Sep 9, 2022
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