New panel framework

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Brian J. Tarricone schreef:
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> 
> I think I'm missing something here.  How does the panel know about these
> external plugins?  Unless I'm misunderstanding, the external plugins
> don't talk to the panel at all until their binary is run.  But how does
> the panel find out about external plugins so it can list them in the
> "Add Item" dialog?  Assuming there's a separate mechanism for this,
> letting language bindings write plugins shouldn't be a problem at all.
> 

Hehe, I guess I forgot to mention something here...

Yeah, you're right. It uses .desktop files (in 
${prefix}/share/xfce4/panel-plugins/) to describe the plugins.

[Xfce Panel]
Name=Test Plugin
Comment=This plugin has no purpose
Icon=xfce-unknown
External=true
FullPath=/home/jasper/experimental/libexec/xfce4/panel-plugins/testplugin