FYI: 4.7 panel and plugins

Jannis Pohlmann jannis at xfce.org
Tue May 26 12:58:22 CEST 2009


On Tue, 26 May 2009 12:50:03 +0200
Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/5/26 Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>:
> > On Tue, 26 May 2009 10:06:37 +0200
> > Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Internal plugins are a lot faster. If a plugin is stable and does
> >> nothing that might lock the main thread for a long time (no http
> >> stuff for example), I prefer a plugin to be internal.
> >
> > Performance is not really an issue with most plugins, is it?
> > Anyway, I thought plugins in the new panel are run in a wrapper
> > process, so isn't this discussion about internal and external
> > plugins a little pointless?
> 
> Well Brian suggest not to allow internal plugins anymore (public).
> Whether they run in a wrapper as module or are compiled as executables
> was not a point.

What's the definition of internal and external in the new panel then?

  - Jannis
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