RE: Plugin System

["Jon Kåre Hellan" <jk-hell online no>]

>===== Original Message From <msevior physics unimelb edu au> =====
>Hi Everyone,
>            I shortened the CC list! I have been reading this thread but
>haven't understood all the details.
>
>However from my experience with the AbiWord plugins we should have the
>following capabilities:
>
>An XML description of the plugin, it's location in the menu structure(s)
>(it might appear in the main menu or one or more context menu's) and/or
>toolbar structure, it's name and it's tooltip. This all needs to be
>localizable.
>
>At startup the plugin loader should recognize these and update the
>applications menu and toolbar structure.
>
>However we should also have the option of waiting until first execution
>for actually loading the plugin.
>
>This defers the startup speed hit until the plugin actually needed, while
>making sure that user knows the plugin is available from the menu
>structure.

For the general case, this sounds right.

However, administrators and users who want to deploy site local or user
personal plugins may be willing to accept slower startup if a plugin can be a
single file.

Regards

Jon Kåre