[MonoDevelop] Reticulating Spines and Other Wastes of Time

[Michael Hutchinson]

On 12/19/06, Carlos Gustavo Ruiz <carlosgruiz74 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe you can create some kind of plugin or addon that can manage this
> kind of user specific modifications.. something like firefox extensions
> or something... this could be usefull tu provide other kind of tools
> that users think that can help or be nice to other users.. maybe some
> kind of scripting extensión could be nice..
>
> Sorry if I don't know very much about MD programing structure.. but is
> an idea for all of you...

MD is already entirely based upon an extension-based structure, but
unsurprisingly there is no extension point to let users inject random
messages into the loading screen.

I'd be against putting this code into the MD core (for one thing, who
gets to choose which messages are in the list?), but I guess a
compromise could be to add an extension point that would make this
possible, preferably with a useful purpose too. The 'funny' AddIn
could then be distributed in an online AddIn repository.

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Michael Hutchinson
http://mjhutchinson.com