Note, I haven't read the thread completely yet. But: I am with Michael. It's not obvious to me what the gain of this would be. Using the Plugin menu seems to me a central point for other developers to make stuff available if he does not know (or care) where to put it, and vice versa: a good spot for users to start looking on new stuff.
will read, hopefully over the day, the other responses. stefan Am 07.12.14 11:56, schrieb Michael Michaud: > Hi Ede, > > Not sure I understand how you want to manage true extensions. > I think an extension which is not included in PLUS distro still need to > be initialized through its initialize method rather than through > default-plugins.xml (or did I miss something). > As I understand it, for extensions, it's still up to the developper to > decide where the plugin will go. I think there may be a few reasons > why it should go in plugins menu rather than in tools menu : > - it may take place in another menu than tools > - it may be difficult to insert it at the right place (see my hack for CTS) > - it may be easier to find a tool in plugins menu for a user if he knows it > added it as an extension (dropping a jar in ext dir) > > Note that I'm not against moving current extensions from Plugins to > Tools where it makes sense, but redirecting MenuNames.PLUGIN to > MenuNames.TOOLS seems a bit rough. > > Let's hear others as everybody has a different opinion when it comes > to put tools at the right place ;-) > > Michaël > > >> now that the possibility is there to move plugins freely within OJ via >> default-plugins.xml i'd like to resuggest: >> >> let's retire the main menu Plugins entry. generally it serves the same >> purpose as the Tools entry, so why not merge it into Tools? >> >> from the coders point we can easily make this backward compatible by changing >> MenuNames.PLUGINS = MenuNames.Tools >> >> if we want specific places for some plugins we can redefine them via xml, >> e.g. >> >> Plugins/JumpChart -> Tools/Statistics/JumpChart >> >> >> comments? ..ede >> >> PS: the FillPattern entry should be deactivated. if Geoff needs credits he >> should modify the info printed in the About/Extensions panel ;) >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server >> from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards >> with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more >> Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> Jump-pilot-devel mailing list >> Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server > from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards > with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more > Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
