Re: [Evolution-hackers] Plugins

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 10:50, Nick wrote:
> What support does Evolution provide for custom plugins?  Static? 
> Dynamic?  I'd appreciate it if someone could point me to some
> documentation for creating one.
We have only very limited support for plugins in specific areas:
 - data importers, which use a bonobo (corba) based model
 - electronic mail backends, using a c-based object model
 - bonobo components for displaying mime data inline in the mail view
 - ?? not sure what else.

> Also, does Evolution support modifications to the GUI via a plugin (like
> adding a button)?

No.

This is something we've thought about, but haven't gotten around to doing anything concrete about.  We would like to have a more well-defined plugin system, that would also allow gui extension (at least to menu's and configuration pages).

 Michael