mcs-manager plugin dev question

[Benedikt Meurer]

On Sat, 21, Jun 2003, Biju Chacko wrote:

> > How does one go about creating settings manager plugins? Do they need
> > to be written in any specific language (C?)? If not, how do you
> > register the plugin with the settings manager?
> > 
> > Basically, I've got applications from disparate sources, and I would
> > like to be able to put launchers for their settings in the settings
> > manager. It seems like all that *should* need to happen is for the
> > settings manager to have an icon that launches the appropriate
> > program, but it looks like this isn't exactly the case.
> > 
> > As examples: I have a program that can be used to set the backdrop for
> > my ROX-Filer pinboard, complete with GUI; I might want to be able to
> > place an icon for xfprint-manager here; an app to select which
> > screensaver to use (or to launch the xscreensaver setup dialog). 
> > 
> > Basically, I want to know if the mcs-manager has a way of binding
> > system commands to an icon.
> 
> the settings system provides a lot of infrastructure to applications
> using it such as saving to file and change notification. So it isn't as
> straight forward as it seems.
> 
> I guess for 4.2 we could think about adding support for third party
> settings. I suspect it could be handy for sysadmins, especially.

I like the idea. And I think, it does not require to change the
mcs-manager itself. We could use some kind of "wrapper plugins". But
that'll definetly have to wait until 4.2.

Benedikt

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