A Small Panel Idea

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On 01/12/05 21:30, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Erik Harrison wrote:
> >Musing today I thought it might be nice to have a short description
> >available for each panel plugin, and the add item dialog could have
> >two tabs  one listing the available items and another showing details
> >for the currently selected plugin. Gaim uses something similar in it's
> >plugin UI. I started to patch to add it, but frankly, I'm a C moron,
> >and I wasn't sure what the best way to add the info to the plugin was.
> >Is there a way to add it to the .so itself in an easily extractable
> >way, and if so, can it be done without breaking the panel ABI? I'd
> >hate to think that users have to recompile their plugins for every
> >major Xfce version.
> 
> Yes, that's what I'd like to see. If I'm not mistaken, there already is 
> an API to allow an 'About' dialog for the plugin, it's just not used yet ;-)

is there really a point to any of this right now?  4.2.x is feature-frozen,
and presumably 4.4 will use the new panel widget, with a new plugin
interface (though hopefully someone will write a wrapper for old plugins).

	-brian