Managing plugins
Enabling, configuring and removing plugins, what their permissions mean, and installing one from a folder.
Every command in Pivit comes from a plugin, including the ones that ship with the app. Settings → Plugins lists them all.
What you can change
Each plugin has its own page:
- Enable or disable the plugin. A disabled plugin's commands disappear from the bar and the wheel entirely.
- Assign shortcuts to individual commands, right next to them in the command list.
- Configure it. Plugins that need settings declare them, and Pivit renders the interface — Quick Search's bookmarks and search engine, Files' index and folders, and whatever a third-party plugin asks for.
- Set a colour, which is what tints the plugin's commands in the results list.
Permissions
Plugins declare what they need to reach outside Pivit — the internet, your clipboard, notifications, stored data — and you see that list before installing. Pivit also scans a plugin's code for the capabilities it actually uses, so a plugin that quietly does more than it declared is caught rather than trusted.
A plugin asking for more than its description would suggest is worth a second look.
Installing a plugin
The Pivit Store is on its way. Until then, plugins are installed from a folder on your machine: point Pivit at a built plugin directory under Settings → Plugins and it appears in the list like any other.
That is the same path plugin authors use during development. If you are writing one, see the Plugin SDK.
Reloading
Reload Plugins from the command bar re-reads every installed plugin without restarting Pivit. Useful when you are developing one, or if a plugin has got itself stuck.
Removing
Remove a plugin from its page in settings. Its commands, settings and shortcuts go with it. Built-in plugins cannot be removed, only disabled.