Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Blacklisting

[Julien Puydt <jpuydt free fr>]

Jan Schampera a écrit :
> On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 10:46:03 +0100
> Julien Puydt <jpuydt free fr> wrote:
>
> > Basically, each handler answers either "Ok, I handled, stop there" or 
> > "Go down the list".
>
> That reminds me of something else: Could you add a type classification
> to the plugin code? I mean, just an ID that tells the system if it's a
> addressbook source or a call handler for incoming calls - not that we
> need it right now, but imagine you create a window that displays
> information about loaded/present plugins.

Hmmm... the idea of having a window to show this doesn't appeal to me. 
The idea to have a debug output which would give more information about 
loaded plugins than "/usr/lib/whatever.so was loaded" would indeed be a 
better idea.

Perhaps a simple description string would be enough? It could show up as:
/usr/lib/whatever.so was loaded :
Whatever plugin version 3.14159
  Provides support for whatever crap you want

Would that look good ?

> That class could also be retrieved under runtime from the separate
> plugins, though.

I don't like the idea of class of plugins : what if a single plugin 
provides several types of services, like say an XMPP plugin would 
provide a new type of account and a new addressbook family?

Snark