Applet development documentation

[afparsons]

I've found surprisingly little documentation concerning applet development. I'd be willing to put together some more comprehensive documentation, provided it doesn't exist somewhere already (I'm new to Budgie and might be looking in the wrong places).

I assume that installation of a plugin isn't as simple as just dropping the vala_project directory into ~./local/share/budgie-desktop/plugins and running budgie-panel --replace &

Presumably there is some build process, but I'm not sure what that entails. If you drop a few hints to me, I can play around myself and write up a Markdown (or other format) file.