Plugin creation should be easier to create, using a more imperative style, and remove the requirements for the plugin to implement its own threading.

For example, for bug 656001, one could implement:

grilo_class->get_list = bbc_get_list;

static GList *
bbc_get_list ()
{
    content = http_grab (URL);
    /* do stuff with content */
    return list;
}

This could be further eased with macro to handle the GLib/Grilo boilerplate.