<br>In your opinion should I make big-plugin interface that handle every rendering, like menu render desktop switch popup and focus popup, or should I make one plugin interface for each.<br><br>The big-plugin interface make theme consistent, when burst-plugin are more flexible.
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 22, 2007 9:51 PM, Benoît Gschwind <<a href="mailto:doth.gschwind@gmail.com">doth.gschwind@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Dec 22, 2007 3:32 AM, Dana Jansens <<a href="mailto:danakj@orodu.net" target="_blank">danakj@orodu.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>It's my own personal opinion that it would be superior to simply make<br>a theme format that let you specify a greater variation on the frame's<br>sizes and whatnot, rather than make plugins, which would each have
<br>their own theme file format, bugs, maintainers, etc.<br></blockquote></div><div><br>In my opinion, to make theme format that let you specify a greater variation imply often more inconsistence in frame layout and it's hard to test all configuration. Next options of the more flexible theme format are hard to define since it's hard to know what users will need. Plugins architecture give a way to peoples to make their own layout, and openbox team don't need to know what those users need.
<br><br> I agree with the fact that imply each plugin's developers must maintain and debug their plugins but they do that on very small peice of software which have a simple and precise task, that simplify the maintenance. An other benefit is that openbox can provide a minimal theme plugin with 0
conf which will be easy to maintain, and some others with more flexible
configuration.<br></div><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Plugins for this have been persued before but I've never found it to
<br>be worth while. I haven't looked at your patch yet, but do you intend<br>to make a more formal interface between Openbox and the plugin, or to<br>just use the Frame structure/functions as they are now (which would
<br>end up being segfault hell).<br><font color="#888888"><br>dana<br></font></blockquote></div></div><br>Currently the patch is like a "proof of concept", it is not intend to be released. I plan to specify an<br>
formal interface and his documentation.
<br><br>I invite everybody to help me to provide an good interface.<br><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>benoit gschwind
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>benoit gschwind