A Small Panel Idea

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 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).
> 

Oh, yeah, that too. Forgot to mention that ;-)