As part of the admin upgrade I am looking at improvements for the plugin manager.

So far the following changes have been made or are planned:

• Simplified view
• Drag&Drop to reorder (this means hiding the sort_order field)
• Ajax enable/disable in overview
• New ‘Upgrade’ option that re-installs the plugin as part of software upgrades
• Option to keep settings when un-installing a plugin
• Popup Edit dialog (loaded via Ajax)

The popup edit dialog still needs some more specs. For one thing this only makes sense if the plugin has real options – enable/disable and sort order will be managed via the overview (see list above).

Another issue is that some plugins currently provide their own implementation. There will need to be some code to figure that out and change the link accordingly.

I still like the idea of plugins being able to add menu items as they wish. With a new menu system it is planned to provide methods/options to add items anywhere, but some of that will depend on the menu structure itself, I guess.