Re: [ jEdit-devel ] About Plugins

[Shlomy R. <sre...@gm...>]

This all sounds great. I think the "plugins" tab should also be
arranged by these categories and sub-categories - having a flat list
is not very user friendly.

Shlomy

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Damien Radtke <dam...@gm...> wrote:
> This is kind of an all-encompassing message regarding jEdit's plugin system,
> and some changes/improvements I would like to work on.
>
> 1) I'm slowly working on creating a semi-functional "package" tab for the
> plugin manager as a more full-fledged replacement of plugin sets. Among the
> improvements I would like to add are support for an online repository of
> maintained packages (in addition to local, user-defined ones) and support
> for suggested docking layouts and keyboard shortcuts that the user may
> choose to apply or reject. Possible support for package-specific Macros as
> well.
> 2) I think that plugin central should be cleaned up, removing any broken and
> obsolete plugins. I know that ClassWizard is broken, and ProjectWizard is
> broken/obsolete, so there is really no point in having these plugins in the
> list. There are probably other ones I'm missing as well.
> 3) Personally, I think the plugin categories should be re-worked. In
> particular, "Language Support" should be a broader category with
> subcategories specifying the language it supports (with Java-Centric and
> "HTML and XML" re-named to "Language Support: Java" and "Language Support:
> HTML/XML"). This would make it easier for developers of a particular
> language to narrow down the plugins targeted for that language, particularly
> for languages that don't have their own named category such as
> "Java-Centric."
>
> If everyone is alright with the plugin package idea, I may need some help
> enabling online-repository support, although the rest of it shouldn't be
> overly difficult. Beyond that, my other suggestions pretty much just involve
> cleaning up and tidying plugin central.
> Any feedback would be welcome.
> ~Damien
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