Re: [Deskbar] GMail account search

[Francisco Jesús Jordano Jiménez <arcturus ardeenelinfierno com>]

Hello all,

I think that the handler autoinstalation could be a very useful capability.

The implementation of this capability shouldn't be very complicated (a 
xml file for describing handlers, download and unpacking) and 
automatically you have all the third party handlers installed or actualized.

This tool could not only be useful for the final user, sure it could 
help programmers with handler development. Now, people develop handlers 
in their own way and they are free to code, if an halder needs auxiliary 
files (art files, glade files, etc), the developers have the power to 
choose everything.
This tool may force developers to pack their handlers in a standar way 
... mmm for example a simple idea, a "package" may contain separately 
code, art and auxiliary files and the deskbar core should offer a 
interface and simplify the accessing. This could help the handler 
development.

Also this facility could be very useful for updating handlers and solve 
problems with handlers and deskbar versions.

Definetively, it's a new work, but sure it could help to consolidate the 
project.


Cheers!


Kevin Kubasik escribió:

> Ok, my first look went well. But my major concern (as with almost all
> gmail related products) without a publicly released API, and with
> Gmail still technically in beta, google changes minor things pretty
> regularly which can majorly mess up handlers like this. While I don't
> think we should give up such a cool feature. It might be prudent to
> look into some way to push updates of handlers to clients.
>
> Bear with me, maybe this has been brought up before, but a simple ftp
> repo with some index.yaml (YetAnotherMarkupLanguage) file or similar
> could be used to allow clients to pick what handlers they want and
> download them as needed (since handlers are so small its not much
> overhead all said and done). We wouldn't even need to modify the
> current UI much, this could be done mostly transparently, with a
> simple popup when one or more handlers are out of date.
>
> Just a thought, but its issues like this, if google were to change a
> small bit of their gmail URI and we have to initiate another release
> and hope that packagers get it into their distros in time before we
> get a deluge of complaints that people spammed their entire contact
> list with each search term or something stupid like that.
>
> Ok, so that's a little absurd, but you get where I'm going.
>
> -Kevin Kubasik
>
> On 4/23/06, Raphael Slinckx <raphael slinckx net> wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi !
> >
> > I recently seen the Stuart Langridge's plugins for deskbar. I took his
> > gmail search plugin (using libgmail) and prettified it a bit. I attach
> > it to the mail.
> >
> > It uses gconf to store username and password.
> >
> > Please tell me what you think about it, if it should go in core release
> > for 2.15 or not..
> >
> > If we manage to get web-plugins done, then it can be moved afterwards..
> >
> > Raf
> >
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