Notes on the new panel

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
>>>>>I think the clock widget should be taken out of libgui and be part of 
>>>>>the clock plugin. Nothing else is using it, AFAIK.
>>>>
>>>>I always wondered why that was in libgui in the first place...  But
>>>>taking it out will break ABI.  Granted, there's a 99% chance that no one
>>>>in the entire world but the panel is using it, but...
>>>
>>>99.99% would be closer, I think. I'm still in favor of moving it.
>>>
>>>One of the advantages of being small (still) is that the damage of 
>>>breaking compatibility is smaller as well.
>>>
>>>Anyone else want to comment on this? Benny? Olivier?
>>
>>Put it into the clock plugin (remember, you'll need to use dynamic types 
>>here if you want to use it in-process), but don't remove it from 
>>libxfcegui4 now.
> 
> Hmm, very good point... dynamic types... I'll have to look that up ;-)

You just need to pass a GTypeModule (or a custom GTypePlugin 
implementation) to the plugin, which is then used by the plugin to 
register types. The loading and unloading is then controlled by GType 
instead of the application, which is somewhat different to what the 
panel does right now.

If you are looking for an example, you can check the thunarx library and 
the ThunarExtensionManager class.

> 	Jasper

greets,
Benedikt