Re: plugin support for F-Spot

[Larry Ewing <lewing novell com>]

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 16:20 +0200, Stephane Delcroix wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I've spend some time lately to develop a plugin facility for F-Spot. So
> far, I've a virtual plugin class, some methods to load plugins, and a
> testplugin. Thanks to Thomas and his solution to bug #344534, I've also
> a way to compile plugins without the F-Spot sources.
> 
> The main goal of this plugin facility is to provide (in a first time) as
> many Export schemes as you can imagine. Export function like 'export to
> my local photo store' will never ends up in the core of F-Spot (my
> guess), but some people need this.
> 

Sounds great.  Import, export, editing, file format, metadata and
sychronization are all possible plug-in entry points.  The ImageFile
code is meant to be trivially converted into a plugable system.  The
main issue with export as a plug in is dealing with the ui a sane way
that avoids the gimp giant menu trap but also isn't too limiting on what
sort of UI the plug-in can present to the user.  I've given it a fair
amount of thought, I'll try to write down what I've come up with in the
next couple of days as i prepare for guadec.

--Larry