Hey,

is it possible to load a python plugin from a different location than the resources folder ?
I'm having the issue that I have to deploy and maintain a plugin on different machines where I don't have access to the Krita resource folder.
What I can control is the environment in which Krita is launched. So I hoped there would be a system variable which I can change and pinpoint to my plugin folder ?
Any other solution is also warmly welcome.
Cheers,

Dome

There are two places where Krita looks: the system location and the per-user location. On Linux, for instance, the user location is in ~/.local/share/krita -- and python scripts placed there will be found and can be enabled in the python plugin manager.

boudewijn wrote:There are two places where Krita looks: the system location and the per-user location. On Linux, for instance, the user location is in ~/.local/share/krita -- and python scripts placed there will be found and can be enabled in the python plugin manager.

Thanks for the quick reply. I think I didn't explain my situation very well. I've read the docs where the plugins should normally go. Sadly I can't put it in any of those locations.
The plugin has to be deployed via a shared folder like dropbox and the artist should't have to manualy copy and update the plugin every time I push a new version there.

From your answer/docs it seems there is no mechanism in place to allow for a custom plugin location.

Do you think a symlink from the plugin location to any of these folders will work ?

Cheers,

Dome

Which OS is this? On Linux, the location can be changed with the XDG environment variables, but I'm not sure about other os'es

Os is windows. Thanks for the name of the enviroment variable I can play around with that one and let you know if something works
Cheers,
Dome