Mailwatch plugin ported to new panel

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Mon Sep 19 08:40:39 CEST 2005


Brian J. Tarricone schreef:
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> Jasper,
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> I was looking through your diff, and I noticed something I meant to
> comment on earlier, but forgot.  Is it really a good idea to tie the
> panel's config API to XfceRc?  I can see instances where someone might
> want to use an XML file, or some other configuration mechanism.  And
> this makes it pretty much impossible to add better/different config
> mechanisms to Xfce in the future and use them easily within panel plugins.
> 
> I'd suggest just returning the file name of the config file, and let the
> application decide what to do with it (which may indeed be
> xfce_rc_simple_open(), but let the plugin developer decide).
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Sounds very reasonable. I'll change that.

Thanks,
	Jasper



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