It's me again, could you please give me a hint, how do you guys debug your plugins? The output of gnome-do --debug doesn't show me my exact problems I'm facing.
2009/6/24 Benjamin Klüglein <[email protected]> > Well, that has been just to easy. :-) Thanks! It's just Drag 'n' Drop. > > When I want to display the name of the found packages next to a short > description do I need an extra Item for that? > > 2009/6/23 Kalle Persson <[email protected]> > > I'm not writing plugins myself, but try just dragging the .dll into the >> plugin window. I think that should work. >> /Kalle >> >> >> >> On 2009-06-23 09:06, Benjamin Klüglein wrote: >> >> I finished a first version of the plugin but I didn't find a way to load >> it into do. I tried linking the dll and a handmade mpack-file to >> /ush/share/gnome-do/plugins but no changes showed up in Do's plugin dialog. >> Sadly there's nothing about it on the wiki. >> >> 2009/6/22 Benjamin Klüglein <[email protected]> >> >>> Thank you guys for your answer. I'll give it a try today. >>> >>> 2009/6/22 Christopher James Halse Rogers <[email protected]> >>> >>>> On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 14:40 -0700, Mike Rooney wrote: >>>> > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Benjamin >>>> > Klüglein<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > > Hello group, >>>> > > >>>> > > as this is my first mail here I have to 'do' a statement first: Do >>>> > > absolutely rocks!!! It really works like a charm and boosts my >>>> productivity! >>>> > > Thanks a lot!! :-) >>>> > > >>>> > > A use case which I'm often facing is, that I quickly want to check >>>> the >>>> > > package archive for existing packages and install what I find. Right >>>> now I >>>> > > open a terminal and search via "apt-cache search foo" look for what >>>> fits and >>>> > > then install it. >>>> > > >>>> > > Is there a way to do this directly with Do? I know the AptURL >>>> Install >>>> > > plugin, but it implies that I know the exact name of the package. >>>> While >>>> > > sitting on my couch I came up with the idea that it would be cool to >>>> be able >>>> > > to do something like the following: >>>> > > Summon Do => type 'search package' or something significant shorter >>>> :-) => >>>> > > type a search term => tab => a list of packages found by apt-cache >>>> gets >>>> > > displayed, select one and press return and the package then gets >>>> installed >>>> > > by the AptURL install plugin. >>>> > > Would it be better that I try to extend the AptURL plugin or to >>>> write a >>>> > > complete new? >>>> > > >>>> > >>>> > This definitely sounds like a cool and useful idea; I also use that >>>> > workflow frequently. AptURL might not be a good name for the plugin if >>>> > it also used apt-cache search. Is there any precedent for plugins >>>> > talking to each other or passing items to another plugin? I think a >>>> > separate plug-in could be the most coherent since it is reasonable >>>> > that you would only want to search packages but not install them. >>>> > >>>> The current way that plugins would do this would be the >>>> Summon => "audio player" => "search package" => enter, and the "search >>>> packages" plugin would re-summon with a text-item (see how plugins like >>>> TinyURL & Pastebin do it"). >>>> >>>> Obviously here we'd be wanting to return a list of text-items; I presume >>>> this would work, but I've never used a plugin that did it. >>>> >>>> This might be one of the nice places to use PackageKit, if you're >>>> feeling like making the plugin a little less Debian-centric :) >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GNOME Do" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gnome-do?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
