Plugin system

[Vitaliy Okulov]

Please add intergration with music players, like audacious.

[Razzloss (razzloss)]

Not likely to happen. Unless some sort of plugin system is implemented. Then features like this can be implemented without cluttering and bloating the main program.

--RZ
.... hrmh plugin system... where did I put that damn prototype...

[Vitaliy Okulov (vitaliy-okulov)]

Plugin system will be very usefull.

[Steven Sheehy (steven-sheehy)]

A plugin system would be nice. If someone wants to take it, I recommend they look at glib's gmodule functionality.

[Vitaliy Okulov (vitaliy-okulov)]

I think plugin interface must be some kind of wrapper over high level languages, python, perl, lua, etc.

[lys (lys)]

allready implimented by curse in his mod of this client, see http://www.crzdc.net/

[Vitaliy Okulov (vitaliy-okulov)]

Domain www.crzdc.net not found. Or it`s spam? +)

[Steven Sheehy (steven-sheehy)]

I've looked at crzdc's implementation of a plugin system before and was not impressed. They basically invoke a shell script and print its output to chat. It is highly insecure and not very flexible. I would like to see a plugin system using gobject or possibly python scripts.

[Steven Sheehy (steven-sheehy)]

Characteristics that a plug-in system must have (notes to myself or anyone else that wants to implement it):

- Load plug-ins from a directory in the user's home (e.g. ~/.dc++/plugins/) for user-added plug-ins
- Load plug-ins from the installed prefix (e.g. /usr/share/linuxdcpp/plugins) so we can ship some plug-ins with the program
- Use gmodule to load the plug-ins dynamically from either directory, user plug-ins overriding shipped plug-ins
- Create an interface that plug-ins would have to implement
- Support C++ plug-ins
- Possibly support python plug-ins in addition to C++
- Allow for dynamic replacement of UI elements like menu items (this will require conversion of glade files to GtkBuilder files and thus a minimum of 2.12 for GTK+)
- Support versioning of plug-ins
- For additional ideas see http://www.nuclex.org/articles/building-a-better-plugin-architecture

Any other ideas feel free to add them here.