Launch plug from CLI

[Mario Guerriero]

What I mean is that we should be able to launch Switchboard with 'switchboard plank' to open it showing the plank plug, for example.

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

This has been discussed on IRC for some time now.

Fundamentally the tricky part is dealing with the IPC, and more importantly, dealing with the fact that plugs are not known until after launch.

I'm not opposed to the idea. Confirming.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

This bug should no longer be Wishlisted. If it were fixed, new Dexter would launch Switchboard instead of gnome-control-center; which is one less issue that's forcing us to still ship it [gnome-control-center].

I'm going to milestone this for beta1 as soon as I get accepted on Pantheon team. I don't expect that to go over well, but gnome-control-center has got to go.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

Fixed by Andrea Basso at revision 192.

[xapantu (xapantu)]

As I said on the bug report, this is not fixed, it can't be used on non-english computers (so, more than 50%).

[Andrea Basso (voluntatefaber)]

We should decide a way to "call" plugs. There are mainly three options,

 1. Adding an id field in .plug files
   This would require some work but it's actually the best solution

 2. Using the path of .plug files
 3. Using the exec command
   These solutions would require less work but the developer who needs to access plugs may/should not know where they're located.

Once a solution is decided, I can add the fix.

[xapantu (xapantu)]

We'll use an id, e.g. if the .plug name
is /usr/lib/switchboard/printer.plug, it will be "printer". If there is
a subdir, it will be subdir/printer.

Le vendredi 30 mars 2012 à 17:11 +0000, Andrea Basso a écrit :
> We should decide a way to "call" plugs. There are mainly three options,
>
> 1. Adding an id field in .plug files
> This would require some work but it's actually the best solution
>
> 2. Using the path of .plug files
> 3. Using the exec command
> These solutions would require less work but the developer who needs to access plugs may/should not know where they're located.
>
> Once a solution is decided, I can add the fix.
>

[Andrea Basso (voluntatefaber)]

Oh, I see... So this doesn't even require work on .plug files... Smart! :)

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

Why don't we just use the exec field? That would never get translated and should be the most static of the other options. Plus it requires no extra computed properties.

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

Nevermind that idea. We now use the .plug file's group header as the unique id.

I have updated the spec here: http://elementaryos.org/docs/apis/switchboard/plugs/plug-file. The change was committed in rev 225.