I am doing a bit of bug-search in xfce in my free time. Sometimes before submitting a but I want to check if the bug is still present in the master git HEAD. I don't really want to make a package reinstall it every time I want to test some version of a package. It's cumbersome at best, and becomes a genuine pain when doing a git bisect. Would it be possible to add an option (ideally a gui button in the "Add new items" window to load panel plugins from files?
What about https://git.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-panel-profiles/ ?
I am sorry, I don't entirely understand how it can help with this task...
You can use xfce4-panel-profile (install it via your distro's package manager if available or build from git master) to save and restore panel configurations. IMHO it's much more useful than what was requested.
I am sorry, but I entirely don't understand in which way a panel configuration may be a substitute for loading a plugin from file. I don't care a slightest bit about the number of panels or the order of widgets. I don't plan to imitate Gnome or Redmond, or anyone else. What I need is to be able to check out the source code for an obsolete plugin, compile it and load into the current panel without restarting anything. Then I would like to try and fix a bug, compile the plugin again, load the new .so (or whatever is the format of a plugin) and compare the behaviour of the new guy and the old guy on the same panel.
(In reply to lockywolf from comment #4) > What I need is to be able to check out the source code for an obsolete > plugin, compile it and load into the current panel without restarting > anything. Then I would like to try and fix a bug, compile the plugin again, > load the new .so (or whatever is the format of a plugin) and compare the > behaviour of the new guy and the old guy on the same panel. Using symlinks as described in [1] you get two versions of the same plugin at the same time, but you still need to restart the panel or kill the wrapper process. 1 - https://wiki.xfce.org/dev/howto/panel_plugins#testing_and_releasing_the_plugin
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