New panel framework

[Ori Bernstein]

On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 08:16:41 -0700, "Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu>
said:

> 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.
> 
> 	-b
 
I'm not 100% sure, but I think Jasper mentioned that the panel knows about them
through .desktop files.
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