[wplug] Why Linux May Succeed On The Desktop

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On 11/6/07, David Ostroske <eksortso at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If GNOME adopted a plug-in
> framework, similar to what Firefox can offer through extensions, then
> I'm sure many objections to it would melt away. Not likely to happen
> soon, though.
>

In a lot of ways it already has.  It seems that the most common way of
fitting with GNOME's HIG is to offer a minimal set of options, but then have
plugins for each program.  Tomboy, Exaile, and Gedit are the first apps I
think of that do this.  Looking at gnome.org, it seems Evolution has plugins
too.  If you look at the argument Linus had with the GNOME devs, there were
backend capabilities for certain preferences, but they weren't in the GUI
configuration tools. The point was that a plugin could be written to
interface with the backend stuff with considerably less effort.  Devils Pie
is an example of this.

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Mackenzie Morgan
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