Michael Herger;253713 Wrote: > > And why fill yet another datastructure in SC when you can add skins to > plugins? Wouldn't it be enough for any plugin author wanting the > ultimate functionality out of iPeng to add an iPeng folder with the > templates in there? No need for additionalLinks.*iPeng. > > We should rather look at how we could fix these issues in the generic > templates. Instead of asking _all_ plugin authors to change their > plugin, we could discuss the real issues with their authors and find a > solution which does work for most with the the least effort. If you > don't you risk to be without plugin support really soon. > I agree with you Michael, however, at the moment I can say that none of my plugins work good with the iPeng skin without adjustments. But the preferable solution would definitely be if the plugins would work as long as they use the standard components available in all skins.
Until we have these standard components that works with both iPeng, Nokia770 and all the other skins my feeling is that the current solution by using double registration in the additionalLinks hash is acceptable. After all it will only make plugins that has been tested available on iPeng. I can understand that Joreg doesn't want his skin to look bad and contain pages that doesn't work at all just because some plugin developer hasn't done their work. As a plugin developer I can also say that I don't want to support or try to help users that use a skin that I haven't tested my plugin against. I've had some problems regarding the Nokia770 skin earlier regarding this and I've also got reports that some of my plugins doesn't work with the handheld skin. I'm pretty sure some of the problems are in my code and that I haven't understand how to use the standard components. Michael Herger;253713 Wrote: > > Other than Erland's plugins I'm not sure there are many out there which > would need a special skin at all. I think you are correct regarding this. Most plugins have a pretty simple web interface or even no web interface at all, some of mine tends to have a more advanced user interface. I'll try to create summary of the problems I've had during the Custom Browse adaption to iPeng to get you some sort of feeling about the problems. This could probably be some sort of start point of deciding which standard components that are needed. The major problem are that the screen is a lot smaller on the iPhone, so I can't show all the information in iPeng which I show in the other skins. I'm guessing the same problems probably also is applicable to the Nokia770/Touch skins if I try to make my plugins work good with these. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41697 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
