[tomboy-list] About addin repository,

[Jared]

What would we do for windows?

Jared

On Apr 12, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Jeff Schroeder <jeffschroeder at computer.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Jared <jaredljennings at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We were thinking of making an interface inside of tomboy. So it would download and install all from tomboy.
>> 
>> Jared
> 
> Distributions like Ubuntu will patch out that functionality like they
> did with firefox. I was just trying to help you avoid that.
> 
>> 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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>>> 
>>> 
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