Writing a plugin description

Anjuta needs a file with a plugin extension to know about our plugin, its name and description, where it is located, when to load it. Here is an example for our basic plugin :
[Anjuta Plugin]
Name=Hello World
Description=An example hello world plugin.
Location=anjuta-hello-world:HelloWorldPlugin
Icon=anjuta-sample-plugin-48.png
    
Generally, Name and Description should be translated. Using intltool, you can do this by prefixing them with _. Location is of the form libraryname:ClassName : libraryname is the name of the library file (without the lib prefix and .so suffix), and ClassName is the full class name including the namespace (and not separated by a period as you would write it in Vala). Icon is the icon to be used by the plugin, here we put sample plugin icon which is distributed along with Anjuta, but you could put your own icon instead.

For more information about plugin description files, refer to Plugin description file.