Re: Plugins vs Extensions

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 02:31 -0200, Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote:

> For example, Evolution has an Edit -> Plugins window, Gedit uses a tab
> in the preferences dialog and Epiphany uses the Tools -> Extensions
> menu. There are several other modules as well as third party
> applications.
> 
> I was hoping the name (extension vs plugin) as well as the interface to
> enable/disable them could be standardized for the Desktop 2.20 release.

One way to "standardize" would be in epiphany to merge the concept of
"extensions" and "plugins" (the former are similar to the other apps
plugins, while the latter are external players like flash). This would
also have the side advantage of allowing the user to deactivate flash
though the "plugin dialog". I don't know if it's doable anyway.