[Users] [Bug 3158] Avatar plugin priority

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--- Comment #4 from Christian Hesse <mail at earthworm.de> ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Don't take it bad but my initial idea for this is not to have it centralized
> at all. The core should not care about this priority since it's an
> arrangement among plugins of some kind. I don't like the idea of having code
> in core for this even if no avatar plugin is loaded, only the strictly
> required (which ideally should be nothing :)

Agreed, I am with you. ;)

> One idea for this is applying something similar to what is done with pgp
> plugins: one avatarcore plugin with the common code (something similar to
> the priority management you depicted in your patch) and the other
> avatar-related plugins would reuse it.

Ok, but this requires X-/Face support got to a plugin as well, no?

> Also some common interface would have to be defined: at least functions to
> query/set priority all avatar-related plugins should implement, so the
> avatarcore would  invoke them for each of them appropriately. Maybe also
> some user-friendly identification function to help GUI.
> 
> Had not much time to think about the details, but more or less that's the
> big picture right now. So if you want to invest time on this I think that's
> the way to go, more than adding more code to the core.

I will think about it. All of this sound reasonable so far I think.

> Thanks in advance!

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