Plugins maybe want to use in their activation Gajim methods that
use an extension point. But because the PluginManager Object is not fully
initialized, the extension point method is not available yet
First create the PluginManager Object, then load Plugins.
Remove plugin path from sys.path after importing.
If we scan multiple plugin dirs and never remove the path from
sys.path, it is hard to predict from which path python will import
a package.
The chance that the same plugin package is in multiple plugin paths
is high.
- remove gui extension point on close, to remove the reference the plugin manager holds to the Class.
- reduce scope of var that holds reference to Gtk.Builder(). We have to be careful with
Gtk.Builder, because it can hold a reference to our Class (methods bound to signals) which creates a reference cycle
which python is not able to detect. Hence neither Gtk.Builder nor our Class are garbage collected.
Why this is not detected as a reference cylce is unclear at the moment.
There are two approaches to circumvent the problem:
1. we lose our reference to Gtk.Builder when closing the window, which lets python garbage
collect the builder, afterwards it can garbage collect our class.
2. we reduce the scope of the var that holds a reference to Gtk.Builder, so that the builder
can be garbage collected at the end of __init__.
I chose to reduce the scope because the builder is not needed class wide.
Philipp Hörist
André Apitzsch
Yann Leboulanger