heya,
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 10:54 +0200, David Prieto wrote: > Plugin management in Gnome is suboptimal; it depends on a given package > being in your distro's repos, which gives no room for new packages. > Installing a plugin for Rhythmbox is a real pain in the ass, if it's not > in the repos. Something similar to codec buddy ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureCodecBuddy > > Why not let the plugin manager download new plugins and install them for > you? Something between the current plugin managers and the add/remove > apps we have now. Something like the attached mockup. > > My idea is more or less the same as the plugin manager we have now, only > it lets you choose and add plugin repos specific to each application. > Then you can browse for plugins maintained by Ubuntu, plugins maintained > by the developers of that app, or third-party plugins. Then, clicking a > plugin's checkbox actually downloads and installs it. No need to have a > specific "epiphany-extensions" package with only a few predefined > extensions... you can have any extension available out there. > > Apt-get and repos magic is great, why not use it with plugins as well? > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Ritesh Khadgaray ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919970164885 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
