Features wishlist for xfce 4.1

[Shahar Weiss]

Olivier wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 17:43, Xan wrote:
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>>So the question is "how developers decide if a feature has to be included in 
>>the code? and how it's decided to decline this feature?". I'm afraid that 
>>developers decide it _subjectively_. 
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>It seems to me fairly obvious that it is subjective, for the very simple
>reason that we write the software, so we are free to make it the way we
>want.
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>Cheers,
>Olivier.
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I was just wondering, is it possible for panel plugins to manipulate 
with other XFce components? If so, this may be the solution. People who 
will want a certain feature can just add a plugin, while other can enjoy 
being bloat-free. As for who will write those plugins, this is a 
different story, I'm just wondering about the architecture.

For example, I was thinking about making windows manage themselves 
(kinda like in ION), but I bet that will be very messy to code and will 
probably generate much lesser performance, so maybe if a panel plugin, 
something external for that matter, can handle such a thing, it might be 
just a way to enjoy both worlds.

Can plugins do such things?

Shahar.