Brian Jackson wrote:
I've been thinking about an rss reader too. I haven't started working on one yet, but I have been working on a poc plugin system. Along the lines of drop a subdirectory into a dir called plugins, and it automatically shows up in the main interface.
So far my ideas for it have all involved basically a seperate part of the app. Your idea for IM presence blows that out of the water. I'd like to hear more of your ideas for it. I'd like the plugin system to really be useful for everybody, and it's important to me that it's done at least half right to begin with.
SM uses "hooks" at key points so it "executes" everything that has registered for that hook when it needs. Each hook function then outputs whatever they want to show.