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Authored by f321x
qt: PluginsDialog: add link to website
Adds a link to the plugins.electrum.org website so users who open the
plugins dialog out of curiosity get guided to the website and can
discover other plugins and learn more about the system.
What changed, and why it matters
This commit simply adds a 'Help' button to Electrum's plugin management window that opens the official plugins.electrum.org website in the user's web browser. It is a user-interface convenience change, not a security fix or vulnerability.
No security action needed; this is a benign UI enhancement.
Security signals we found
No strong security signals were identified.
Evidence from the diff
The patch modifies electrum/gui/qt/plugins_dialog.py to add a QPushButton using the existing webopen() utility to navigate to https://plugins.electrum.org/. It reorganizes the bottom button layout from a vertical-only arrangement to a horizontal layout containing the new Help button, an Add button, and the Close button. No cryptographic, networking, or plugin-loading logic is changed.
Changed components
electrum/gui/qt/plugins_dialog.pyInspect captured patch +12 / −3
diff --git a/electrum/gui/qt/plugins_dialog.py b/electrum/gui/qt/plugins_dialog.py
index 239c5e9..6e65df4 100644
--- a/electrum/gui/qt/plugins_dialog.py
+++ b/electrum/gui/qt/plugins_dialog.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from functools import partial
import shutil
import os
-from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QLabel, QVBoxLayout, QGridLayout, QPushButton, QWidget, QScrollArea, \
+from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QLabel, QVBoxLayout, QHBoxLayout, QGridLayout, QPushButton, QWidget, QScrollArea, \
QFormLayout, QFileDialog, QMenu, QApplication, QMessageBox
from PyQt6.QtCore import QTimer
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ from electrum.gui import messages
from electrum.logging import get_logger
from .util import (WindowModalDialog, Buttons, CloseButton, WWLabel, insert_spaces, MessageBoxMixin,
- EnterButton, read_QIcon_from_bytes, IconLabel, RunCoroutineDialog)
+ EnterButton, read_QIcon_from_bytes, IconLabel, RunCoroutineDialog, read_QIcon,
+ webopen)
if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -178,7 +179,15 @@ class PluginsDialog(WindowModalDialog, MessageBoxMixin):
add_button = QPushButton(_('Add'))
add_button.setMinimumWidth(40) # looks better on windows, no difference on linux
add_button.clicked.connect(self.add_plugin_dialog)
- vbox.addLayout(Buttons(add_button, CloseButton(self)))
+ website_button = QPushButton(read_QIcon('globe.png'), _('Help'))
+ website_button.setToolTip(_('Visit plugins website'))
+ website_button.clicked.connect(lambda: webopen('https://plugins.electrum.org/'))
+ hbox = QHBoxLayout()
+ hbox.addWidget(website_button)
+ hbox.addStretch(1)
+ hbox.addWidget(add_button)
+ hbox.addWidget(CloseButton(self))
+ vbox.addLayout(hbox)
self.show_list()
def get_plugins_privkey(self) -> Optional['ECPrivkey']:
Why this scored 15/100
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