[Review Only][WIP] Proof of Concept to show the default extensions

[ficristo]

I really want a way to disable JSLint with the UI.
So I tried to show all the default extensions in the extension manager.

The enable/disable buttons do not work yet. I reused the infrastructure already there, but to disable an extension it writes a file in the path of the extension: this is not possible for the default ones. An idea could be to write a json file in the user profile to track which extensions are enabled/disabled, so it will work even for the default extensions.
Is this approach correct?

[abose]

Awsome!!
Tagging @larz0 for UI review.

[larz0]

It's possible to disable JSLint in preferences right? If we think it's necessary to add a new tab just so that people can disable features then we should be using this wrench icon for the tab:

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[MiguelCastillo]

@larz0 yeah you can, it's just as not as straight forward as a simple on/off flag... https://github.com/adobe/brackets/wiki/How-to-Use-Brackets#list-of-supported-preferences. Search for linting.prefer.

[larz0]

@MiguelCastillo I wonder if it should be in Brackets Preference UI in the future since most of our users don't know that the features are actually extensions.

[ficristo]

I wanted a user friendly way to disable JSLint, and I have taken this approach because I thought to be able to reuse the enable/disable infrastructure used by the "normal" extensions.
I do not mind to wontfix this if there are better alternatives.

[abose]

+1 I like the idea of disabling default extensions
Maybe the third tab name as default extensions?

[abose]

Can default extensions be shown only when a preference is set? Disabling some default extensions will break brackets. so maybe restrict it to people who knows what they are doing?

[ficristo]

@abose My personal needs were been satisfied instead, more or less, with #11641.
Now I found less compelling to work on this: while I think that write a json file to track the extensions disabled, what I was talking in #11618 (comment), is still something good, I'm less sure showing default extensions is good.
When I wrote this PR I wanted something easy to use, adding a preference to me is unwanted.
I thought instead in a whitelist / blacklist to show / hide specific extensions.
But as I said, I am not sure if I'll ever finish this.

[ficristo]

I don't think I'll ever finish this.