On 11/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Ostroske</b> <<a href="mailto:eksortso@gmail.com">eksortso@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If GNOME adopted a plug-in<br>framework, similar to what Firefox can offer through extensions, then<br>I'm sure many objections to it would melt away. Not likely to happen<br>soon, though. <br></blockquote></div><br>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
<a href="http://gnome.org">gnome.org</a>, 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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