Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Plugins

Timestamp:

May 8, 2010, 11:48:09 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

nelhage@mit.edu

Comment:

--

Plugins

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-== Zephyr, AIM, Jabber, IRC ==
+= Plugins =
 
-These are either built into BarnOwl or live as plugins in the main tree.
+BarnOwl implements a plugin system that allows for additional functionality to be implemented as add-on perl modules. This page exists to have a semi-centralized list of out-of-tree plugins that you can add to your Barnowl.
+
+ * For instructions on installing plugin modules, see [wiki:UsingPlugins]
+ * For instructions on creating a plugin, see [wiki:CreatingAModule]
 
 == Twitter ==
 
-The [http://github.com/nelhage/barnowl-twitter BarnOwl Twitter plugin].  Send and receive public and direct messages via Twitter and Twitter-like services (eg. identi.ca).  Mirror select zephyrs to Twitter.
+||Author:||Nelson Elhage `<nelhage@mit.edu>`||
+||Source:||[http://github.com/nelhage/barnowl-twitter]||
+||PAR:||http://web.mit.edu/nelhage/Public/BarnOwl/Twitter.par||
+||Documentation:||http://github.com/nelhage/barnowl-twitter/blob/master/README||
+
+This plugin implements Twitter support for BarnOwl. You can send and
+receive public and direct messages via Twitter and Twitter-like
+services (eg. identi.ca).  You can also optionally mirror select
+zephyrs to Twitter.
+
+The Twitter plugin will be part of the main barnowl distribution
+starting with BarnOwl 1.7.
+
+== Alias ==
+
+||Author:||Nelson Elhage `<nelhage@mit.edu>`||
+||Source:||[http://github.com/nelhage/barnowl-alias]||
+||PAR:||http://web.mit.edu/nelhage/Public/BarnOwl/Alias.par||
+||Documentation:||http://github.com/nelhage/barnowl-alias/blob/master/README||
+
+The Alias plugin allows you to change the displayed name of select classes, for example to abbreviate long class names or to hide private class names from shoulder-surfers.
+
+== DevUtils ==
+
+||Author:||Nelson Elhage `<nelhage@mit.edu>`||
+||Source:||[http://github.com/nelhage/barnowl-devutils]||
+||PAR:||http://web.mit.edu/nelhage/Public/BarnOwl/DevUtils.par||
+
+The DevUtils plugin contains some utilities of use to BarnOwl plugin developers. At the moment, it contains only the `eperl` command, which allows you to enter perl into the edit window and have it evaluated, with several options for how to display the result.
+
+== ZStatus ==
+
+||Author:||Nelson Elhage `<nelhage@mit.edu>`||
+||Source:||[http://github.com/nelhage/barnowl-zstatus]||
+||PAR:||http://web.mit.edu/nelhage/Public/BarnOwl/ZStatus.par||
+
+The ZStatus plugin exposes the `zstatus` and `zbars` commands, for sending status bars to Zephyr that look something like:
+
+{{{
+#!html
+<pre><code>
+       [Zephyr status dashboard]
+              barnowls [<span style="color:red">========  </span>] <span style="color:red">(8/10)</span>
+                ponies [<span style="color:green">===       </span>] <span style="color:green">(3/10)</span>
+</code></pre>
+}}}