Panel plugin autodetecting

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Hey Scott,

Better use the xfce4-dev list. This one is a bit dormant :)

Scott Barron wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I did some messing around tonight and added the capability for the panel
> to find newly installed plugins without having to be restarted.  It's a
> pretty trivial patch, but I've just started looking through xfce so the
> developers should look it over and make sure I'm not missing something.
> The patch also handles the plugin being uninstalled, it will not show it
> in the "Add new item" dialog.  I had to add the path to the ControlInfo
> struct because I wasn't sure if I was otherwise able to get the path
> using ControlInfo.  At any rate, any thoughts or comments on the patch
> are appreciated.
> 

Hehe, you looked at the right time. It's easier now that I created the 
separate dialog. Looks good, but I want to have a closer look at it, 
before committing. I should have time to do it this week.

> While doing this I noticed that if there is a configuration for a plugin
> set up for xfce but the plugin is not installed the panel will segfault
> on start up.  I don't have time to look into it tonight, but the
> relevant backtrace is:
> 

Oops, that sounds like a pretty big bug. Thanks.

> groups_show_popup (index=10, show=1) at groups.c:562
> 562         group = li->data;
> 
> Note: both of these are done against CVS head.  The patch can be found
> at: http://elitists.net/~kain/panel-patch
> 
> Thanks
> -Scott
> 
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