Hi, Today we had an interesting discussion on the channel triggered by a bug making the Perl::Tidy plugin crash (fixed). Being pretty short on time, I write the ideas down in case someone has the "tuits".
At the moment Padre plugins have their own configuration menu (or none at all). A downside, from an UI point of view, is that the user has to cross around unrelated parts of the menu to change settings. To aggravate things, each plugin has it's own style of dialogs for the preferences (sorry to say, often ugly). Not good. So, the idea would be adding the preferences of plugins into the global preference window (much like other IDEs do). Specifically, I was thinking in the lines of adding a Plugins entry to the preferences UI with a subentry for plugins that register their preferences. This is an example: http://claudio.ulyssis.be/plugins_in_preferences.jpg The tricky part, is that we need to expand the Plugin API: Quoting Alias on this: 13:23 Alias hrm? 13:24 The problem right now is that the entire configuration definition needs to be complete early, before the plugins are loaded 13:24 You can't add extra configuration properties after startup 13:24 And plugins load after startup 13:24 There's other issues with it too [...] 13:34 you see a way around that? 13:35 Alias Lazy loading, partial reloading... 13:35 There is one fairly easy way 13:35 Don't integrate into the main configuration subsystem at all 13:35 Hold your own config independantly 13:35 El_Che just a composite dialog? 13:35 Alias ya And further: 13:37 Alias Plugins do have a few assets to build on 13:38 They have their own private directories 13:38 So if they want to store their own configuration, they have somewhere to put it 13:38 El_Che plugin_directory_share 13:38 Alias right 13:38 So put a configuration file in there, have the plugin supply a Wx::Panel 13:38 Alias Which has to support ->save and ->cancel 13:39 plugin_preferences_panel 13:39 Or something C. _______________________________________________ Padre-dev mailing list Padre-dev@perlide.org http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev
