IDEA: PGP crypt and decrypt in xftree

Edscott Wilson García edscott at imp.mx
Fri Mar 8 14:43:10 CET 2002


On Vie 08 Mar 2002 02:34, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would tend to agree. Do not put too much in xftree.

Yes, it's just about reaching critical mass by now.

>
> BUT, if you really want to put so many things in xftree, the best thing
> to implement in xftree is plugins... (dlopen of external libs that
> implement the desired fonctionnality)
>
> I'm willing to do that in xfwm for Xfce version 4.x.
>
> All you need is to *think* deeply about a common API for plugins. Once
> you have the API, the coding part should be fairly easy.

It sounds very good, but I've never quite done anything with plugins, and I'm 
not quite sure what you mean. Could point out some example of an application 
with API for plugins so we could study it?

Edscott





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