sydlexius 320 Posted October 7, 2022 Posted October 7, 2022 Being not just a lazy person, but also one who prefers keyboards over mouse clicks I sure would love the ability to search the plugin catalog! Horizontally scrolling through each category is needless tedium, IMO. A search box would be heaven-sent! BTW, I wasn't too lazy to search the FR section for prior requests on this subject...if this is a duplicate, it wasn't for want of searching (BTW, this forum software is really crummy at it. Booleans operators like "AND" are ignored as far as I can tell). 4 3
neik 874 Posted October 7, 2022 Posted October 7, 2022 You could use the browser's search to achieve that, at least that's how I do it.
sydlexius 320 Posted October 7, 2022 Author Posted October 7, 2022 6 hours ago, neik said: You could use the browser's search to achieve that, at least that's how I do it. My experience with that is inconsistent at best. Further, that's an incomplete solution as it does nothing for those who also use the apps to manage their servers. 1
sydlexius 320 Posted June 10 Author Posted June 10 TBH, the Plugins UX kind of reminds me of the phrase "when your only tool is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail." I don't browse plugin installs from a 10ft interface, so why does it have to mimic one?
TMCsw 275 Posted June 11 Posted June 11 On 10/6/2022 at 10:54 PM, sydlexius said: Being not just a lazy person, but also one who prefers keyboards over mouse clicks I sure would love the ability to search the plugin catalog Just what would you search for? A plugin name? What good is that? The biggest problem with the catalogue is that most Plugins don't give a good description of what they do!
IAmHugh 72 Posted June 12 Posted June 12 On 6/7/2026 at 12:39 PM, kricker said: Seems to be a basic function that has long been overlooked. Not overlooked, ignored is far far far more accurate. Search across the board since 2018. While I don't personally care if the plugins section ever gets search cause it takes less than 2 minutes to go through all of them. It's not having perlibrary search and separate search for settings that drives ne nuts. 1
sydlexius 320 Posted June 13 Author Posted June 13 On 6/10/2026 at 5:02 PM, TMCsw said: Just what would you search for? A plugin name? What good is that? The biggest problem with the catalogue is that most Plugins don't give a good description of what they do! How about any attribute? For giggles, I mocked up something that's a (bastard) child of Emby + Unraid Community Apps that might have some useful ideas? https://sydlexius.github.io/Segment_Reporting/plugins_mockup.html Some are aspirational, such as install counts, crash-happiness, and free/paid/premium. 3
TMCsw 275 Posted June 13 Posted June 13 (edited) 21 minutes ago, sydlexius said: How about any attribute? Hu? What attributes? 21 minutes ago, sydlexius said: For giggles Just shows how ridiculous this is. Bye. and NOT clicking your link. Edited June 13 by TMCsw typo 2
seanbuff 1375 Posted June 13 Posted June 13 35 minutes ago, sydlexius said: I mocked up something that's a (bastard) child of Emby + Unraid Community Apps that might have some useful ideas? https://sydlexius.github.io/Segment_Reporting/plugins_mockup.html I love it, exactly what we need. The Plugins UI is in need of a serious overhaul. 1
sydlexius 320 Posted June 13 Author Posted June 13 (edited) For the benefit of anyone else interested in seeing improvements on this that aren't interested in clicking on links, some of the attributes I'd like to search or filter would be: Status: Installed / Not installed / Updates available Category: Metadata, Playback, Notifications, Subtitles, Live TV, Reporting, Library, Channels, Themes Author License: MIT / GPL-3.0 / Apache-2.0 / Commercial Pricing: Free / Paid / Emby Premiere Last Updated Edited June 13 by sydlexius 1 1
ebr 16450 Posted June 13 Posted June 13 11 hours ago, sydlexius said: Status: Installed This already exists in the "My Plugins" tab 11 hours ago, sydlexius said: Category: They are already separated by category... 11 hours ago, sydlexius said: License: MIT / GPL-3.0 / Apache-2.0 / Commercial We don't have this information for 3rd parties Otherwise, not bad suggestions but probably not worth the effort until it is saving you more than a minute or two given the number of plugins in the catalog at this point.
sydlexius 320 Posted June 14 Author Posted June 14 15 hours ago, ebr said: This already exists in the "My Plugins" tab It does, but being able to filter/exclude already installed plugins would cut down on some of the noise. 15 hours ago, ebr said: They are already separated by category... No arguments here...they are, but it would still be nice to see all plugins for a given category on the screen without having to scroll to the right (or hope that CTRL/CMD-F finds it) 15 hours ago, ebr said: We don't have this information for 3rd parties This is a bit aspirational and low-priority, TBH. Nevertheless, it probably wouldn't take a motivated forum member enough to put together an evidence-based dossier on the state of licensing and have at least partial data on it. I'd volunteer for it if it was worth implementing. 1 1
yocker 1657 Posted June 14 Posted June 14 The catalog is indeed awkward. When browsing you only get a logo and name, often that is no help what so ever to what the plugin does. While there isn't that many plugins in the catalog, in the future when there are some more it will take a long time to browse it. A "simple" fix IMO would be to have it work like movies in Emby. Press a category and have it scroll like movies do with a small description under the logo and name. 1
IAmHugh 72 Posted June 14 Posted June 14 4 hours ago, yocker said: A "simple" fix IMO would be to have it work like movies in Emby. Press a category and have it scroll like movies do with a small description under the logo and name. Now that shouldn't be hard to implement since the mechanism is already in Emby. 1 1
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