Re: Evolution Plugins (Was Re: Rise of the Plugins)

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 11:38 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
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> Maybe 95% of the plugins of evo should not be displayed as plugins. They
> should either be preferences in the standard preferences dialog, or they
> should be enabled anyway.

Totem and Rhythmbox have a number of "hidden" plugins that take care of
core functionality, and are never shown in the UI, but allow splitting
at the code level.

> This is not only true for evo, rhythmbox has the same issue (although
> there are less plugins there)

Most of Rhythmbox' plugins should be preferences indeed, and it would be
pretty trivial to have them be so. For example, the iPod, MTP removable
media plugins, and the store plugins (Jamendo, and Magnatune) could be
activated/disabled via a source selection that would allow you to
disable some sources ("[ ] Show Play for Sure device in the sources").

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484435

The cover art display in Rhythmbox could be a "show cover art" tickbox
instead as well.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497665