Sort the plugin list in the plugin dependencies dropdown alphabetically

Development Pipeline & Plugins
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Hi! We are leaning heavily on game feature plugins for our content structure, and have a large volume of plugins. We’ve been doing a pass to make various dropdowns in the editor easier to work with while using large datasets and one of the smaller improvements we made was to sort the plugin list in the plugin dependencies dropdown of the plugin manager alphabetically.

We figured this could benefit others as well, so I’ve gone ahead and made a PR with this small patch - it would be great if it could be upstreamed!

https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/pull/13783

Let me know if I can provide any additional clarification.

Thanks!

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Steps to Reproduce

  1. Edit -> Plugins
  2. Select “Edit” on any plugin
  3. Add an element under Dependenices -> Plugins
  4. View the dropdown list for Name field
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Hey Russell, thanks for the PR. This makes sense to me. We’ll look into integrating it into our main branch soon.