Comments on: Gedit Python Plugins

By: Zac Carter

Zac Carter — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:20:47 +0000

Have you gotten this to work on gedit 2.8.1? I put my files in ~/.gnome-2/gedit/plugins/ as instructed but no changes appear in the list of plugins in gedit.

By: Wouter Bolsterlee

Wouter Bolsterlee — Thu, 11 May 2006 16:47:57 +0000

Note that the Lang=python line should read Loader=python for gedit 2.14.

By: Vagmi Mudumbai

Vagmi Mudumbai — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 02:22:22 +0000

I am n00B to gedit plugin development. I have been searching for tutorials online and so far I haven’t found anything worthwhile. I would be glad to port some plugins from vim to gedit. If you could direct me to a gedit-plugin-authoring-quickstart sort of resource, it would be great.

By: Raphael Slinckx

Raphael Slinckx — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:21:32 +0000

Yes it is, there is no gedit module, but you can acces it once you load the plugin through gedit.

By: lukas sabota

lukas sabota — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:02:48 +0000

Is this in upstream gnome? Can I write python plugins for gedit? I’m using gnome 2.13, and there is no gedit module…

By: Seth Vidal

Seth Vidal — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:30:29 +0000

Any chance of some examples being posted of this plugin doing something we can relate to? Like code folding, for example, would that be possible w/this interface?

By: Police

Police — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 12:06:26 +0000

You are under arrest for stealing, blah blah blah.

By: themodernlife

themodernlife — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:34:23 +0000

Has anybody every talked “abstracting” something like this to point where it’s generic enough to be used by any program? Scritpting MS Office with VBA (i know, i know) is really pretty cool if you try it. It’d be damn hot to have python-scriptability all throughout gnome. I’d be particularly interested in scripting apps like gaim and rhythmbox.

Basically, your plugin constructor gets passed a reference to a top-level apllication object (kind of like the dom, come to think of it) that you just traverse…

something like this (bad pseudocode):

def __init__(self, app):
# find the toolbar
toolbar = app.toolbar
item = gtk.Button(’My Plugins Button’)
item.connect(’pushed’, self.on_button_pushed)
toolbar.add(item)

def on_button_pushed(self, widget):
# etc…

that would be hot! The key there is being passed the ‘root’ application object, not necessarily just a window.

something for the hopefully reincarnated libgnome library? a feature of GnomeApp?

though for food

By: kikidonk

kikidonk — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 20:37:41 +0000

Raphael: No this is only a patch for the moment, and it is made for the new 2.14 version of gedit, so nothing to try yet

ebassi: Perl aaaarghh

By: ebassi

ebassi — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 20:31:16 +0000

now this is it.

you are forcing me to write a perl plugin for gedit.