We can't use the CPAN index as the source for an available plugin list. Whenever Padre's plugin API shifts, half the plugins on CPAN become broken.
We need something different. Adam K On 30 June 2010 17:19, Xaero <groundxa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > -------------------------------------------------- > Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > (30/06/2010 04:28) > >> I bought as new netbook as y notbook is broken and now I am sing the >> Windows 7 that came with it. >> This is the first time I use Win 7 and the first time for a long time >> that I plan to use Windows as my primary OS on a machine. >> I think I am cuious how Win 7 works and how it is to work on Windows. >> I still have my desktop running Ubuntu and if things work out I might >> even buy a Mac but that's another story. >> >> So I got the machine a couple of hours ago, downloaded and installed >> the Stand Alone Padre. >> Surprisingly it still calls itself "Strawberry Perl plus Padre" while >> I think we discussed we'll use the >> name "Padre stand alone". I'll have to check as I don't remember >> exactly what did we decide. >> >> Anyway it installed fine and I could launch Padre fine. >> >> As my Windows decided it wants to be a Hebrew Windows Padre was also >> launced in Hebrew. I am not sure if I am happy about this or not but >> anyway. >> >> The first issue I encountered was that the menues don't fit in the >> screen. They are just too long. I get a small button that I can use to >> show the rest of the menu items but that's less conveninets. So while >> such small screens (10.1") are usually not used to develop code but I >> think we should still make sure the menues fit. At least when a >> reasonable resolution is used. What do you think? >> > I have 1366x768 and the View menu, which is the longest only reaches > down 2/3rds of my screen so it seems fine to me. Is the font size on > the netbook increased? Mine is at 96dpi. I'm using XP, maybe the menu > is more consensed in XP than in 7 :-? >> >> The second thing I noticed is that we don't have a simple way to list >> all available plugins and to install them. >> So what do you think about adding this capability either to the plugin >> manager or as a separate window? >> The plugin manager could list all the available plugins - fetched from >> CPAN - and could have a button "Install plugin". >> We could even provide the documentation of each plusing so they can be >> seen even before the plugin is installed. >> >> The "insdtall plugin" would call the cpan installer. >> > Like firefox Add-ons? >> >> Later we can extend this to use other repositories with PAR based packages. >> >> regards >> Gabor >> _______________________________________________ >> Padre-dev mailing list >> Padre-dev@perlide.org >> http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev > > _______________________________________________ > Padre-dev mailing list > Padre-dev@perlide.org > http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev > _______________________________________________ Padre-dev mailing list Padre-dev@perlide.org http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev
