Beta 1 plugins

[Benedikt Meurer]

John Coppens wrote:
> Hi Benny.

Hey John,

Please use the xfce mailinglist for these kinds of questions.

> Is it still possible to use the plugins for version 4.3.90.1? I'm
> somewhat confused here... In the 
> 
> /usr/local/libexec/xfce4/panel-plugins
> 
> directory is only one plugin (for menu), While in the share/xfce4
> directory, I found about 10 references to plugins.
> 
> Also, the gui installer for goodies fails, because the plugins which I
> tried to compile, refer to an i18n.h include file, which has to be
> changed to libxfce4util.h before the compilation completes.
> 
> But then, I cannot find the steps to prepare the .so file (I only
> found .o files after compilation).
> 
> Is there some doc on this?

The panel API has changed in 4.4, and old plugins cannot be used (hence
the old goodies installer cannot be used). For now, you'll need to grab
the latest versions of the goodies from Berlios SVN and compile them.

> Thanks,
> John

Benedikt