An user on Discord has noticed that plugins downloaded from the Asset Library are not enabled by default. They probably should be enabled by default to avoid confusion as to why a plugin cannot be used after it was downloaded.
Maybe popup a notice dialog to warning user that plugins may harm for their project before enable them.
Auto enable must be an option. Some times you may just want to examine the code or make changes before activating a plugin.
Or ask users to choose whether to enable it when there is a dialog for picking files to download.
If there won't be an option about the default behaviour for "when installed" some users will be unhappy when they forgot to untick "enable when installed" so there must be both an editor option for editor default behaviour and a checkbox in install dialog to override this behaviour when needed.
Closing in favor of https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/324.
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Or ask users to choose whether to enable it when there is a dialog for picking files to download.