On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 01:05 +0200, Alexandre Mazari wrote: > Hi List ! > > David said : > > I'm suggesting that we add some way to register and depend on features. > > E.g. the cube and plane plugins would both register a "largedesktop" > > feature. zoom plugin could depend on the "largedesktop" feature instead > > of the cube plugin and it wouldn't be possible to load two plugins that > > provide the same feature. > > David, what you describe looks a lot like the Eclipse RCP bundle model > based on OSGi specifications. A very very flexible system : > > First, everything is a plugin and is described > - by an id > - a description ans some usual informations > - a list of required previoulsy loaded plugins
yes, we have these in compiz. > > And now the meal :) > > - a list of extension points defining how other plugins can contribute > to it being by code, ressources, strings etc... (ex : ext point > org.freedesktop.compiz.largedesktop must be a desktop handling plugin > and is unique) > > - a list of contributions (called Extensions) to other plugins > ( ex : contribute to org.freedesktop.compiz.largedesktop with a class > named Cube implementing an accordingly interface ILargeDesktop) yes, if we want to we can add similar things to feature system that just got added. > > > > Sadly, most if not all OSGi plugins systems are build around Java, but > I think it can be a great inspiration for any plugin system like the > compiz' one. > > (OT : A C or C++ implementation would be a nice fullfeatured > freedesktop.org project !) > > Happy coding ! > > -- > Alexandre Mazari > Eleve Ingénieur 5eme Année Epitech > Responsable Technique poly/son (poly-son.pfe.epitech.net) > _______________________________________________ > compiz mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz -David _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz
