Here are a few extra attributes which I have not seen mentioned yet
which I think would be useful. Any comments would be appreciated.
*Version*
The version of the plugin, I think the reasons for this are obvious.
<version>
<major>0</major>
<minor>1</minor>
<patch>0</patch>
</version>
*Addition to features*
Just add an attribute to the features tag so that features can be unique
or non-unique. This will mean that we can add lots more features
like 'config', 'matchhandler', 'imageloader' etc etc. They need to be
defined somewhere so that plugin developers can check a list of
official features like this (whilst still adding their own if needed).
<feature unique="true">largedesktop</feature>
This should default to true if not provided.
*Match Handler Tag*
If a plugin provides window matching functionality then it could provide
tags like this.
<matchhandler>
<handler>
<match>title</match>
<!-- optional command to be run to get the attribute for a window -->
<command>xprop | grep ^WM_NAME | ...</command>
</handler>
<handler>name</handler>
etc...
</matchhandler>
*Option Group*
Some plugins and the core have options which work in groups. Hints
can be provided to group these options so that configuration tools
will be able to display them as a grid rather than as individual options.
<optiongroup>
<option name="opacity_match" />
<option name="opacity_values" />
</optiongroup>
*Web based information*
I think it would be a very nice feature to add some web based
attributes which means things can be easily updated without
the user updating the plugin. There are probably others that
could be added.
<info>
<!-- xml file with update info -->
<updateurl>http://www.example.com/plugin-update.xml</updateurl>
<!-- html page with additional information about the plugin -->
<infourl>http://www.example.com/plugin-info.html</infourl>
</info>
<screenshots>
<screenshot
mime="text/html">http://www.example.com/plugin.html</screenshot>
<screenshot
mime="image/jpeg">http://www.example.com/plugin.jpg</screenshot>
<screenshot
mime="application/swf">http://www.example.com/plugin.swf</screenshot>
</screenshots>
Regards
Mike
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