Re: [Deskbar] The future of Deskbar

[Sebastian Pölsterl <marduk k-d-w org>]

Raphaël Slinckx wrote:
>
>> Therefore I suggest a compromise. Make a sane installation mechanism in
>> the pref ui - besides the NewStuffManager. I have never liked the idea
>> of people having to drop files in ~/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/handlers.
>>
>> Maybe just dropping a file (with py,tgz,tbz2 etc) onto the handler list?
>> This would just copy/extract to g2/db/handlers, and then auto enable.
>> This is much like the theme manager, so people should be used to this.
>
> I like that idea !
>
Me, too!

> Maybe we could integrate this with newstuff manager, by presenting two
> columns, on the left available plugins, from manager and on the right,
> the installled plugins. If you drag from availabl to installed then it
> installs. Reverse and it uninstalls (also have +, - buttons).
>
> Then if you drag a package in the available list it also installs (maybe
> with a call to newstuff manager, we should allow that too
> InstallPackage(source_file))
>
I think one column is enough. It should look like it does now, and just
add the DnD feature.

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Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl