David Reveman wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 19:23 +0100, Mike Dransfield wrote: > >> Here is a quick patch for dbus to make it try to load the >> metadata from a file if the plugin is not loaded. >> >> I have tested it and it works fine, but I wanted to check to >> see if you had something else in mind. >> > > Yes, I think we should load/initialize and read the metadata from > plugins. Some minor changes need to be made to the plugin system before > we're able to load and initialize a plugin without activating it but it > should be easy to fix. >
I thought you might have something like that in mind, I shall wait for that to be done. > BTW, I'm not very interested in just returning the descriptions. > The GetPluginMetadata method should return an array of full meta data > documents. This needs to be supported by the dbus plugin before we can > remove plugin dependencies from the core. > Once the above is done, I can look at modifying the getMetadata function. I think it would be appropriate to change this function to return a dictionary because its likely that it will be modified and it will save breaking scripts. > - David > > > > _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list compiz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz