There has been some effort already in defining standards for plugins.
You may want to look at the current proposal and add some of your own
ideas:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PluginUsability

Note that this is just a proposal and no changes have yet been made to
existing plugins in regards to it.

On 4/16/06, Lukas Sabota <punkrockguy318@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello!
> It's really great that there is such a wide variety of plugins
> available for rockbox! But, every plugin has it's own way of exiting.
> Some plugins use MENU, some plugins use SELECT, some plugins use MENU
> +SELECT, and some use HOLD IN SELECT. This can be very confusing for
> users that just want to exit a plugin and go change a song or something.
> I propose that a set of plugin standards/guidelines be written. A
> standard exiting sequence could be one of the things written in this
> standard. If a standard is agreed upon, I would be willing to modify
> existing plugins to respect this standard. A common exit sequence would
> greatly improve the usability of the rockbox. What are your thoughts
> upon this matter?
>
> God bless,
> Lukas
>
>
Received on Sun Apr 16 20:26:16 2006