Re: Evolution Plugins (Was Re: Rise of the Plugins)

["Dylan McCall" <dylanmccall gmail com>]

That is interesting to know a bit better how Evolution is organized. Thanks Sankar.
Still, that makes it seem like a whole lot of unnecessary engineering. We already have a shell: The GNOME desktop.
A bit off topic, but the miniature shell idea makes Evolution very confusing to use. Program menus should not really change, but Evolution's are actually completely different depending on what component is being used. To make matters more confounding, many menu items change their position between components.

On the topic of Rhythmbox, I do not have too many problems with its plugins list (or at least the type of plugins it attracts). They tend to offer small additions that could indeed be represented by single check boxes in the program's Preferences. It would be good to see those moving straight into the Preferences dialog, though, and the idea of them being plugins abstracted to avoid the confusion of that term (though still present under the hood). That they are plugins and not built in to the program's core should be of no importance to the end user. Granted, there would have to be a user interface miracle to fit that type of extensible interface in without looking and feeling horrendous, but I'm hopeful. It could be an interesting experiment!
Even just being an extra tab in Preferences (instead of a new dialog as it is now) could do the job fine.

Bye,
-Dylan McCall

On Nov 17, 2007 7:26 AM, Bastien Nocera < hadess hadess net> wrote:

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 11:38 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
<snip>

> Maybe 95% of the plugins of evo should not be displayed as plugins. They
> should either be preferences in the standard preferences dialog, or they
> should be enabled anyway.

Totem and Rhythmbox have a number of "hidden" plugins that take care of
core functionality, and are never shown in the UI, but allow splitting
at the code level.

> This is not only true for evo, rhythmbox has the same issue (although
> there are less plugins there)

Most of Rhythmbox' plugins should be preferences indeed, and it would be
pretty trivial to have them be so. For example, the iPod, MTP removable
media plugins, and the store plugins (Jamendo, and Magnatune) could be
activated/disabled via a source selection that would allow you to
disable some sources ("[ ] Show Play for Sure device in the sources").

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484435

The cover art display in Rhythmbox could be a "show cover art" tickbox
instead as well.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497665

_______________________________________________
desktop-devel-list mailing list
desktop-devel-list gnome org
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list