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on the 'installed' tab of the plugin manager, there is a 'deactivate' plugin on the selected item. to make the UI more consistent and flexible, this button should be moved next to the 'uninstall' button and work with the check boxes. this would also provide the benefit of allowing the user to work with more than one plugin at once, as with every other operation. i'm calling this a defect and not an enhancement because the UI is inconsistent even within the dialog. feel free to change to an enhancement if you disagree.
It's appropriate to plugin manager subcomponent.
rendered moot by new dialog. just my 2 cents, but i'm not sure how aggregating plugins by category (as the latest plugin manager dialog does) is very useful. there already is a more flexible method for aggregating plugins by creating a 'blank' plugin that simply depends on/requires the plugins you wish to group. this is how most package managers work these days with good reason. for example, the 'Ruby' plugin (and others) in the 'Features' category uses this approach (i think). but the biggest problem with aggregating plugins by category is that categories will often contain conflicting/competing plugins that do similar tasks. for example, if i just want to use the 'Foo' version control system, i don't want to have to install the entire 'Version Control' category, which contains 'Foo', 'Bar', and potentially many other version control systems i don't need.
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whoops, reopening. the 'Deactivate' option should be moved from the popup to a button. the above reasons still apply.
lots of great work has been going on with plugins recently, but this is still relevant...
Raising priority as it is really annoying that you are unable to deactivate all checked plugins in one step.
Deactivate option is either button on right side of Install tab and menu item in popup menu as well.
sorry, the summary was a bit confusing. to repeat from the initial comment: on the 'installed' tab of the plugin manager, there is a 'deactivate plugin' button on the selected item. to make the UI more consistent and flexible, this button should be moved next to the 'uninstall' button and work with the check boxes. this would also provide the benefit of allowing the user to work with more than one plugin at once, as with every other operation. i'm calling this a defect and not an enhancement because the UI is inconsistent even within the dialog. feel free to change to an enhancement if you disagree.
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 103701 ***