[Goodies-dev] Advice needed

[Landry Breuil]

Le 3 juil. 2012 18:45, "Miguel Guedes" <miguel.a.guedes at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> Hello All,
>
> Could anyone please provide me with info on how to build the (new?) so
modules that some plugins generate? I've successfully hacked away and
created patches for the netload plugin, which generates an executable, but
some plugins now seem to generate an so module instead? I read somewhere
that there are now external and internal plugins; maybe it is related to
this?

Look at the git history of the plugins already converted to modules
(wavelan, mpc, systemload..), it is generally a straightforward change. See
for example
http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-time-out-plugin/commit/?id=af8489f66dd8fc083dadd0dfcc5f31a1c575b11b

> Also, I've so far been working on code straight from git and building
using default settings. What ways are there to have the plugins
make-installed to my current XFCE installation? In other words, as it is,
make installs to /usr/local/share/... and it'd be great to have a (fairly?)
safe way of make-installing and integrating with my current XFCE
installation so as to allow for speedy building and testing.
>
> So far I've been reluctant to try autotools configuration settings as I
use this machine for work too. I'm willing to try anything with advice from
someone who knows their stuff though!

What i do is in two steps :
- create a plugin-git.desktop file along the 'regularly released' desktop
file for that plugin. Depending on your xfce install it might be in
/usr/share/xfce4/panel/plugins or /usr/share/xfce4/panel-plugins/ for old
plugins. Of course that's assuming your panel is installed in /usr. In that
desktop file point to the binary created in your source tree - if still
building a binary. Amend the 'name' key in the desktop file with '-git' or
smth like that so that the 'add plugin' dialog shows two different entries
for the regular and the git version.
- if building a module, set the x-xfce-module key to libfoo-git (where
plugin is foo) and make a symlink from
usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugina/libfoo-git.so to where the .so is created in
your source tree (check for panel-plugin/.libs/libfoo.so when building with
libtool)
- eventually, restart the panel if it doesnt automatically pick the new
entry.

Landry
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