[Freetalk-dev] Possible freetalk plugins

[Matthias Quasthoff]

Hi all,

the freetalk extension stuff seems to allow for communication with other
processes. I think only one new primitive like
> (ft-load-plugin "freetalk-some-plugin.so")
would be required. It would load the shared object and call something
like ft_plugin_init() which then would introduce some new primitives and
hooks. The freetalk-some-plugin.so would basically be some kind of
interface to a service like galago or systray or something. The
connection of the freetalk side and the plugin side would happen inside
a new extension, freetalk-some-plugin.scm

The advantage of this approach is that it would not introduce any new
dependencies on freetalk. The same plugins could even be used for
freetalk-loudmouth, freetalk-jingle, freehoo.

What do you think?
Matthias