Re: [gedit-list] Plugins

["Kevin Kubasik" <kevin kubasik net>]

Once the filetree/browser plugin is completed, a lot of this becomes
more feasible. ie. I can use pythons subversion bindings to add solid
SVN support in a flash, but the UI is more difficult. Once we have a
filebrowser plugin, its just context menu suff.

-Kevin Kubasik

On 4/24/06, Jesse van den Kieboom <jesse icecrew nl> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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>
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Kevin Kubasik
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