Huh? The entire point of us supporting plugins is to allow users to "extend" the functionality of Rainmeter anyway THEY want or need without us bulking up the distribution for every little thing a user finds useful. It's the very DEFINITION of a "plugin". I don't understand your position on this a single bit. To be perfectly honest, I don't really like this viewpoint. So you really hate the Plugins Administration feature of Notepad++? All the hundred or more plugins available for Notepad++ should just be baked-in?Yincognito wrote: ↑November 2nd, 2020, 9:46 pm Thanks for the suggestion, but does one need to use a plugin for every little bit of functionality out there, especially when that functionality exists already? Or, if the plugins are really useful and efficient, why not including them in the standard Rainmeter distribution instead of having to hunt them through the many pages of the forum?
Bottom line, while I very much appreciate both the suggestion and the plugin, it really feels awkward to have to use an image size plugin when there is an image plugin already. It's like having a nice text editor, but using an entirely different program (or some add-on that you have to download, install, etc.) to get the number of lines in an opened text file in that editor. A bit redundant, IMHO, to put it mildly.
ImageSize is an example of something that is perfect for a 3rd-party plugin in my view. It's of some value, but not something the majority (or even a large minority) of users will ever need. While I would not be opposed in principle to including the plugin in the distribution, I kinda like that you can get it if you need it, and if you don't, then don't. Sure this plugin, and in fact almost all 3rd-party plugins, are small, and each is not going to add a lot to the distribution. But I personally have probably created a dozen or more little plugins that have a very specific, targeted, or niche purpose, and it would soon add up to stick all of them, and the hundreds of others people have created, into the package. It's why we support and ENCOURAGE people to write their own plugins as they like. It's why we created the Measure=Plugin measure type all those years ago, and I for one am really glad we did.