How to add a custom plugin to Rhythmbox that is installed via Flatpak?

[sunbear]

I wrote a plugin for Rhythmbox and have got it to work with the Debian installed Rhythmbox package. This means I can activate and deactivate my plugin from Rhythmbox -> Menu -> Preferences -> Plugins and also run it from Rhythmbox -> Menu -> Tools. My plugin folder is placed in ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/plugins.

Presently, I am trying to test the performance of my plugin on Rhythmbox that is installed via Flatpak at the user level. However, I can’t get my plugin to appear in Rhythmbox. I have tried putting my plugin into these directories but they don’t work:

~/.var/app/org.gnome.Rhythmbox3/data/rhythmbox/plugins
~/.local/share/flatpak/app/org.gnome.Rhythmbox3/current/active/files/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/
~/.local/share/flatpak/app/org.gnome.Rhythmbox3/x86_64/stable/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/files/lib/rhythmbox/plugins

The last directory listed above is also where all the source code of the plugins used by the flatpak installed Rhythmbox are found.

How do I get my plugin to appear and run in Rhythmbox that is installed via flatpak?

[tragivictoria (Victoria 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈)]

Did you tried putting it here?

~/.var/app/org.gnome.Rhythmbox3/.local/share/rhythmbox/plugins

[sunbear]

@tragivictoria

~/.var/app/org.gnome.Rhythmbox3/.local/share/rhythmbox/plugins

@tragivictoria I just tried this directory but it still did not work…. any other suggestions?

`~/.var/app/org.gnome.Rhythmbox3/config/glib-2.0/settings/keyfile`

Here i can see my plugin listed in `[org/gnome/rhythmbox/plugins]` → `seen-plugins` and `active-plugins`. However, my plugin does not show up in the plugins GUI or the `Tools` menu.