[eboxy-users] plugin suggestion

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Hi,

While working with eboxy, and at the same time hacking it, I found the
plugin system was great but still quite hard to configure. Indeed, the way
it currently works, one must install every plugin in the
/usr/local/lib/eboxy/, which roughly means "system-wide" and "one plugin
name per computer".

Why not just allow the eboxy.xml to provide the location to it? Something
like:

 <plugin module="filebrowser" location="./lib/libfilebrowser.so">
   <pluginobject name="filebrowser">
   </pluginobject>
 </plugin>

It would be really convenient, for the user who can reference a particular
version of the plugin, but also for the developer (who can reference the
plugin they want to test without installing it on the system). Making such
"ref" attribute optional wouldn't break compatibility.

It may also be useful to do the same for the interface plugin: let the
eboxy.xml provide (optionnally) the location of the interface library (so
that you may remove the hardcoded path in
[devel-0-4-0]interfacemanager.cpp ;-))


Rodrigo