[Geany-devel] Plugins Guidance

Frank Lanitz frank at xxxxx
Tue Feb 21 12:23:29 UTC 2012


Am 21.02.2012 11:53, schrieb Thomas Martitz:
> Am 21.02.2012 05:15, schrieb Lex Trotman:
>> 2. don't spread menu items through the Geany menus, users don't know
>> where to look and if several plugins add things to the same place the
>> menu may become unworkable.  You don't know what other plugins the
>> user will enable at the same time.
>>
> You don't propose a solution. What would be the correct place for menu
> items? Also I don't quite get what you're trying to say. You seem to say
> both, spreading menu items and adding them to the same place is
> unworkable, but that contradicts.

Current best practice is to append it into tools-menu and / or adding
with good reasons directly into menubar.

Cheers,
Frank



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