[Padre-dev] localizing plugin documentation

[Jerome Quelin]

hi,

now that we can localize plugins, i definitely think that plugin manager
should display a localized documentation on the right pane, instead of
just the plugin pod.

especially if we decide to translate the plugin name and the plugin menu
entry.

to achieve this, i can imagine that we extend the plugin api with

    plugin_documentation()

which would return a hash:
    author      => 'A. U. Thor <foo at example.com>',
    description => Wx::gettext(...),
    how_to_use  => Wx::gettext(...),
    copyright   => 'Copyright (c) ...',
    license     => Wx::gettext('You can redistribute this plugin ...'),
    etc.

(or whatever fields, i don't really care)

and plugin manager would then display this.

if no plugin_documentation() method is found, then the html-ized pod
would be displayed instead, just as is done currently.

note that it might be a good idea to allow html in the hash values, to
allow plugin author to pimp up its doc. but in this case, i don't know
how translators will cope with this.

==> wdyt?

jérôme 
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