Plugin interface: Information and Version

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Op 2003-11-11 20:29:42 schreef Bernhard Walle:
> Hello,
> 
> one problem with the panel plugins in my opinion the installed
> version.
> My suggestion: A standardisized dialog that is shown if you right
> click
> on the plugin and choose "About ...". The dialog should provide
> following information, e.g. my netload plugin
> 
>   Name:          XFce4 Netload Plugin
>   Version:       0.2.1
>   Author:        Bernhard Walle
>   Report bugs:   xfce-goodies-dev at xfce.org
>   Homepage:      http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de
> 
> The author of the plugin should not need to write the whole dialog  
> but
> only implement an inferface that gives back the strings. This makes
> writing plugins more comforable and gives a way to implement a plugin
> overwiew or something like that if wee need this in future.  Of  
> course
> this is for 4.1.
> 
> What do you think about this?
>

Yeah, that would be really nice.