Etherpad-lite: Is the global view section ever used in the settings popup?

[seballot]

Hi !
In settings popup, there are two columns : My view and Global View

I've always seen the global view empty, is this ever used by some plugin?

[JohnMcLear]

Good question, I can't think when I did it, why I did it or what the use case was.

But I'd guess at "no" being the answer here. I do remember writing a "stop writing" plugin and that would make sense to be there... Lemme check.. Nope, not even there.. Turns out changing the UX for everyone on a pad is a serious enough feature to allow it to land in toolbar.

Are you think of ripping out Global View completely? Cause I think that idea gets a +1 from me 🗡

Just be mindful it has an API hook to it so maybe it would need to go in an if statement IE if a plugin wanted to use it then show it..

[JohnMcLear]

I took a more scientific approach and google searched for

site:github.com "ep_" globalView

literally 0 plugins use that hook (or at least ones published on Github).

So we can drop it.