Re: Rise of the Plugins

["Sanford Armstrong" <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On 5/17/07, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> UI and code sharing
> ===================
> Every time a new module is getting the plugin love, I'm seeing this: "I
> stole the gedit/epiphany code and integrated it". Wow. Copy and paste?
> Would it be possible to share all this code in a library? (maybe it's
> not, I don't know: I didn't look at that code)
>
> Also, each module is having its own plugin/extension manager dialog, and
> they are all looking the same, but with small variations. Wouldn't it
> make sense to standardize this? Again, maybe a library could help.
>
> (And in the future, we might want to get some "update the extensions
> from the internet" feature, and we don't want to implement this ten
> times, do we?)

Though not relevant to all GNOME applications, Mono.Addins [1] is a
very good start at solving this part of the problem for Mono
developers.

And what about NewStuffManager?  Isn't it also proposed as a solution
to some of these problems?

Best,
Sandy

[1] http://www.mono-project.com/Mono.Addins