[Thunar-dev] Introduction

[André Miranda]

Thanks Landry, I'll give it a try next time I play with plugins.

Cheers,
André Miranda

On 02/10/2017 08:21 AM, Landry Breuil wrote:
> There's another option to directly run plugins from the source
> checkout if you dont want to overwrite a 'released/stable' plugin
> coming from your distribution.
>
> - Build the plugin with your changes
> - do a symbolic link from
> /usr/lib/xfce4/panel//plugins/libyourplugin-git.so to
> /where/your/src/is/panel-plugin/.libs/libyourplugin.so
> - copy /usr/share/xfce4/panel/plugins/yourplugin.desktop to
> /us/share/xfce4/panel/plugins/yourplugin-git.desktop
> - edit the latter to point at 'yourplugin-git' instead of
> 'yourplugin', nodify the 'Name' entry to distinguish your instance
> (that'll be the title of the plugin in the add dialog)
> - add X-XFCE-API=2.0 to the desktop-git file
>
> and the 'git' version of the panel plugin should be available in the
> 'add plugin' panel dialog.
>
> Example for mpc (here everything is in usr/local, but on linux it'll
> rpobably be usr) :
> I have this symlink:
>
> /usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel//plugins/libmpc-git.so@ ->
> /home/landry/src/xfce/xfce4-mpc-plugin/panel-plugin/.libs/libmpc.so
>
> and this desktop file:
>
> $cat /usr/local/share/xfce4/panel/plugins/xfce4-mpc-plugin-git.desktop
> [Xfce Panel]
> Type=X-XFCE-PanelPlugin
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Name=MPD Client Plugin (git)
> Comment=A client for MPD, The Music Player Daemon
> Icon=applications-multimedia
> X-XFCE-Internal=FALSE
> X-XFCE-Module=mpc-git
> X-XFCE-API=2.0
>
> I've been using this method for all panel plugin development since a
> while, it allows to compare what's in the 'last release' (ie coming
> from your distro/os) with what you have in your git changes.
>
> As for the plugin themselves, porting hasnt started at all for some,
> ie time-out, cpugraph (that one might be a bit hard), places,
> weather... pick one you use !
>
> Landry