Re: Ideas for future of Galeon 2

On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 19:06, Petter Sundlöf wrote:
> > Phoenix has, however, a very clever idea called "extensions" which are
> > pluggable functional and UI-adding features. The extensions can be
> > downloaded and installed straight from a webpage and are usable after
> > restarting the browser. (Plugins is a term reserved for web plugins such as
> > realplayer).
> 
> I'm not sure if that kind of user interface extension system is possible
> with toolkits like GTK+? I understand how it is very easy with
> XUL/etc... developers?

Shouldn't be too hard -- the current menu interface is generated at
runtime via Bonobo -- so merging extra menus it not difficult. For an
example, see Evolution.

Ross
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