Create a plug for Plank

[Danielle Foré]

Since Plank is part of the "desktop itself" and not really an app, so to speak, we should have a plug for it's basic configuration in switchboard.

I would really prefer to see this plug shipped with plank (so that in case plank is removed the plug is also removed), but if Robert doesn't want to support switchboard we'll probably want to ship this plug anyways.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

After discussion with Robert in IRC we decided the best thing to do would be to create a package like "switchboard-plank" that plank would recommend and that would depend on plank. In this way, a user who doesn't use plank doesn't get this package, and a user that doesn't use switchboard doesn't have to install it either.

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

Sounds fine by me, who would write said package/plug?

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

That would be us :p

[Mario Guerriero (mefrio-g)]

You can see a first implementation of the plank plug here: lp:~mefrio-g/+junk/plank-plug

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Just a thought, but since Plank is obviously installed why not use it's library in your plug? You can probably reuse our classes for reading/writing the preferences, which might make things a bit easier (as if we change how we do things in the future, your plug would just get those changes for free).

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Great idea IMHO! Especially since Plank plug will depend on Plank anyway.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Appearance plug in PPA also handles Plank.