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From: Shlomy R. <sre...@gm...> - 2010-04-29 03:39:59
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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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > ----------------------------------------------- > jEdit Developers' List > jEd...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jedit-devel > > |