Re: UI for configuring plugin

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hi Magnus,

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Magnus Therning wrote:

> So, you're arguing for a separate menu item for configuring 
> Epilicious, and placing it in the Bookmarks menu. That will probably 
> be what I do, since it's a good idea, at least as good as it gets at 
> the moment.
>
> For the long run I don't think it's the right thing.

Then what would be "the right thing" to do, and why isn't it possible 
right now?

> > Not that I'm aware of. But try to be consistent with the HIG and the 
> > rest of the Epiphany UI and you'll be fine :-)
>
> I'll try my best :-)

I just had an idea; maybe you don't even need to write an UI. One exists 
already: http://www.nongnu.org/gnomolicious/. Of course, since this is 
not an official GNOME applet, we can't depend on it, but it might be 
possible to make it so that Gnomolicious/Epilicious configuration is 
identical from the user's point of view. The prefs could be stored in 
the same place, so that it will Just Work.

> Not a bad idea. How do I go about it?

The proper way would probably be to create a patch against 
epiphany-extensions and ask on irc for a code review. If you have a 
GNOME cvs account and it's accepted, you can commit it yourself, 
otherwise you ask one of the maintainers to do it for you.

regards,

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