When we add new statusbar plugins we're required to append an entry to /etc/hildon-desktop/statusbar.conf . We don’t want the plugin pkg to edit these files owned by hildon-desktop but it is inconvenient to go back and update hildon-desktop project each time a new plugin is made. We're looking for a good way to allow new plugin packages to be installed and visible in the statusbar without having to modify hildon-desktop. One suggestion was to use some folder like statusbar.d (similar to /etc/apt/sources.list.d) for additional configuration additions. Another was to just have some entry in /etc/hildon-desktop/statusbar.conf like [*] which would put all the /usr/share/hildon-status-bar/* plugins not already listed.
This scenario may also be desireable for any container where plugin order and size are not required.
Bob