On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Matthias Saou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi,
Hi Matthias > I've just updated my Fedora 9 packages to 0.5.18, and I really feel > this is a nice release : I haven't seen a single problem so far. > Congratulations to the developers! Again, thanks for the work on the packages :) > I am a little curious about the new plugins architecture, though. > > 1) In "Plugin Collection", I see few plugins. I'd like for instance to > be able to disable the lirc plugin in order to avoid a traceback file > created in /tmp for each run, but it's not listed there. How come? > Because it fails on startup? (if yes, then we have a chicken and egg > problem) Not all the plugins have been packaged and put on the repository and not all will be. This is something that is being worked on at the moment. > 2) I decided to try the one and only available plugin from "Find new > plugins", which is the "Ffmpeg 0.1" plugin. I was wondering how the > 32bit vs. 64bit problem would be handled here, as I was trying it on an > x86_64 computer... and when I looked at the egg/zip file it had > downloaded, I saw it was a bunch of useless DLLs. I thought the new > plugin architecture was supposed to make it easier to exclude plugins on > architectures where they don't make sense... has this been thought > out here? There's no point listing DLL plugins for Linux users. Right. This is supported and just not implemented in all the layers, i guess it's high priority for the next release. > 3) Where did the weather plugin go? That poor plugin had been rewritten > with various metar bindings, went "underground" for a long time, was > just about the only "good" plugin at some point, but I've now just > realized that it seems entirely gone. I really think a simple weather > plugin available by default would be really useful in elisa, especially > now that the configuration interface seems finalized and working. Why > so little love? Believe it or not, I regularly check the weather on... > my Wii. The weather page on the wii is awesome :) That being said, I think the weather plugin has been removed with the intent of putting it on the plugin repository, except that nobody has done that yet. I could be wrong here though. Alessandro
