[Gaim-devel] Plugin UI hooks in 2.0

[Bill T. <ga...@ic...>]

I've been working on updating the Gaim-Encryption plugin to work nicely
with 2.0, and have hit a bit of a block.

Looking at the current conversation windows, I would think that the best
place for a per-conversation plugin UI option (like encryption status)
would be in the "Options" menu.  At least, that is where the Gaim
per-conversation options like "Enable Logging" seem to live.

Those menus, though, aren't actually tabbed; instead a callback is
installed for the tab page-switch, and the per-conversation menu options
are individually updated to reflect the underlying conversation's state.

So, for a plugin to add something to that menu, things get ugly pretty
fast.  While it is probably possible to do, I'm guessing that it will be
pretty brittle to any Gaim changes in the future.

I'm wondering about the feasibility of adding an "options" structure to
GaimConversation that plugins could be given access to, and that the
GtkConversation could use to populate its menu.

Any thoughts?  Am I missing a simpler way for plugins to show
conversation-dependent options in a consistent way?

-Bill