Slides: on the core plugins page the required setting is not mentioned

[StoicRhino]

Minor documentation issue.
Slides - Obsidian Help mentions 2 ways to start slide presentations.
Neither of them (file menu or command palette) work if the Slide option on the Core Plugins page is not enabled. A reference on this setting is recommended.

[rigmarole]

Do you have another slides community plugin installed?

[StoicRhino]

Nope. And the slides option showed up (file & tab) as soon as I enabled the core setting. Just a documentation issue.

[rigmarole]

I don’t see the menu item or command if the plugin is disabled. Your second reply makes it sound like you don’t either.

Are you saying if you disable the plugin, you still see the commands?

Or are you simply saying the menu and command do not even appear at all, until the plugin is enabled, and that is what you want mentioned in the docs?

[ariehen]

@rigmarole

Or are you simply saying the menu and command do not even appear at all, until the plugin is enabled, and that is what you want mentioned in the docs?

^I think it’s this.

If you start here,

Core plugins - Obsidian Help

it says:

Some core plugins are disabled by default. You can enable them under Settings → Core plugins .

I don’t think each core plugin page should include an “enable this plugin for it to work” section, but maybe a backlink to the quote above to make it 100% clear?

[rigmarole]

ok yeah seems that way. By “don’t work”, I imagined they were visible, but not functioning. Which is why I suspected another plugin was adding them.

I like your suggestion of a backlink, which would send them to more context about plugins in general.

[StoicRhino]

With “Don’t work”, I meant that the Start Presentation option is not shown, IF the Core Plugin option is disabled! The documentation of the Slides function does not point this out or even mentions that the functionality described requires the Core switch. I don’t see this as a ‘backlink’ but as ‘incomplete documentation’. imho

[ariehen]

If a Core plugin is disabled, it’s not going to function, show its commands in the command palette, etc.

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