[tomboy-list] About addin repository,

[Jared]

We were thinking of making an interface inside of tomboy. So it would download and install all from tomboy.

Jared

On Apr 12, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Jeff Schroeder <jeffschroeder at computer.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Luc Pionchon <pionchon.luc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> About addin repository,
>> I updated the Add-ins page [1] with direct links to screen-shots and
>> dll, hopefully making it easier for end-users to get what they need.
>> One site is dead (404). A few Add-ins don't provide binary, and source
>> code is stored in various ways. Also I am wondering about binaries
>> from various external web sites, it sounds like a potential security
>> risk.
>> 
>> [1] https://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/PluginList
>> 
>> About source code repository, whereas it is at  tomboy/Tomboy/Addins,
>> tomboy/contribs, or in a new module tomboy-addins is up to you. In any
>> case it would be great benefit to centralize addins @GNOME (when the
>> author wishes so).
>> 
>> The main point is to get them packaged all together by linux
>> distributions. Note: Ubuntu has official packages for
>> tomboy-blogposter and tomboy-latex. I would suggest something like
>> tomboy-addins, like gedit-plugins, rhythmbox-plugins,
>> banshee-extensions-common (*), etc.
> 
> You might *seriously* consider adding support for packagekit[1] to
> tomboy. That way when distributions have packaged up the separate
> extensions, you get 1 user experience on every distro to download and
> install them. hughsie is the guy that wrote packagekit and is general
> very approachable with questions.
> 
> [1] http://www.packagekit.org/
> 
> 
>> Another strong point is to get them into the gnome i18n loop,
>> targeting at an uniform and coherent translation between addins and
>> tomboy.
>> 
>> And of course it eases global maintenance and gives a place to report bugs.
>> 
>> 
>> Overall I think there is need of someone to overlook the addins, to do
>> a minimum QA, facilitate integration, look at coherence between addins
>> and uniform UI, and hopefully get them out together with tomboy
>> releases.
>> 
>> 
>> (*) One short note on "Add-ins" I would strongly recommend to be
>> uniform across the GNOME platform. Today we have addins, addons,
>> plugins, extensions (...)
>> 
>> 
>> This would be for the best benefit of tomboy users, and tomboy itself
>> 
>> Luc
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