[gedit-list] Plugins

[Jesse van den Kieboom <jesse icecrew nl>]

Hello,


Some ideas to get some structure in the whole plugins business.

- Define categories for plugins and split gedit-plugins in those
categories. Also show the categories in the plugins list in gedit (maybe
with a collapsable treeview). Possible categories are: Desktop,
Application development, Web development. I think this is important
because the list of plugins will grow fast.

- Merge join/split lines with the advanced editing plugin
http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/AdvancedEditingPlugin

- The project plugin, I think there were about three persons working on
something, but there isn't really anything done as far as I know. I
think a good project plugin can be very useful for other plugins as well
because it allows for applying things to all files in the project
(thinking about cvs/svn plugin or formatting plugin)

- Put more structure in the available/requested plugins list. It's a bit
messy at the moment (in my opinion). Maybe move all plugin related
information to a separate wiki page (e.g. Gedit/Plugins or
GeditPlugins).

- Write a python plugin howto and create a generic python plugin
template

- Design an API for the completion popup as we've talked about before.
There are quite some plugins that want to have popup lists (snippets,
word completion, ctags/cscope completion)

- Decide what to do with the different ctags plugins. I personally don't
think ctags is really useful for the things we really want, decent code
completion

- Write a good cvs/svn plugin

Just some ideas. I'd like to have some idea about the direction we're
heading with plugins and how to put some clearity in the now somewhat
jungle of mostly half finished plugins.


-- 
Jesse van den Kieboom

Visit: http://www.icecrew.nl