[dev] Easier adding of themes and applets

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting Marko Djukic <marko at oblo.com>:
>
> > plus it would be good if the applets themselves advertise what they
> are, plug
> > and play like, rather than fiddling with any config settings.
> > eg.:
> > $this->applets['fortune'] = array(
> >     'name' => _("Random Fortune"),
> >     'type' => 'fortune',
> >     'default' => '/usr/games/fortune'
> > );
> >
> > could be returned by a getInfo() function inside the applet.
>
> Right. What you lose is one easy place to change settings (where they're
> needed)
> and the flexibility of the title being configurable.

That's true, but actually often the case with applets (being small
encapsulated programs).

Jan.

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