Index: pluginconf.py
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--- pluginconf.py
+++ pluginconf.py
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 # api: python
 # type: extract
 # category: io
 # title: Plugin configuration
 # description: Read meta data, pyz/package contents, module locating
-# version: 0.7.0
+# version: 0.7.1
 # priority: core
 # docs: https://fossil.include-once.org/pluginspec/
 # url: http://fossil.include-once.org/streamtuner2/wiki/plugin+meta+data
 # config: -
 #
@@ -295,13 +295,30 @@
             "description": "",
             "value": None
         }
         for field in rx.options.findall(entry):
             opt[field[0]] = (field[1] or field[2] or field[3] or "").strip()
-        #@todo map type:
+        # normalize type
+        opt["type"] = config_opt_type_map.get(opt["type"], opt["type"] or "str")
+        # preparse select:
+        if opt.get("select"):
+            opt["select"] = config_opt_parse_select(opt.get("select", ""))
         config.append(opt)
     return config
+
+# split up `select: 1=on|2=more|3=title` or `select: foo|bar|lists`
+def config_opt_parse_select(s):
+    if re.search("([=:])", s):
+        return dict(rx.select_dict.findall(s))
+    else:
+        return dict([(v, v) for v in rx.select_list.findall(s)])
+
+# normalize type:names to `str`, `bool`, `int`, `select`, `dict`
+config_opt_type_map = dict(
+    text="str", string="str", boolean="bool", checkbox="bool", integer="int", number="int",
+    choice="select", options="select", table="dict", array="dict"
+)
 
 
 # Comment extraction regexps
 # ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
 # Pretty crude comment splitting approach. But works
@@ -323,10 +340,13 @@
      (?:  "  ([^"]*)  "
        |  '  ([^']*)  '                        #  "quoted" or 'singl' values
        |     ([^,]*)                           #  or unquoted literals
      )
     """, re.X)
+    select_dict = re.compile("(\w+)\s*[=:>]+\s*([^=,|:]+)")
+    select_list = re.compile("\s*([^,|;]+)\s*")
+
 
 
 # ArgumentParser options conversion
 # ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
 # As variation of in-application config: options, this method converts

Index: uikit.py
==================================================================
--- uikit.py
+++ uikit.py
@@ -702,10 +702,11 @@
             self.connect("scroll_event", self.no_scroll)
 
         # collect entries
         self.ls = gtk.ListStore(gobject.TYPE_STRING, gobject.TYPE_STRING)
         self.set_model(self.ls)
+        entries = entries.items()
         if type(entries[0]) is not tuple:
             entries = zip(entries, entries)
         for key,value in entries:
             self.ls.append([key, value])