Comments on: scripting GNOME

By: otte

otte — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:15:32 +0000

Janne, I’m talking about the second thing (and I do believe sripts should be able to RemoveSong). What I’m talking about is getting people without an SVN account and without review to submit code, because frankly, I often can’t be bothered to write bug reports and discuss about a feature I want in an app. Especially if it gets rejected later, even though I know a bunch of people who like it.

Chris, I think Kross is more on one level with gobject-introspection. And (just like gobject-introspection) it doesn’t look like it tackles security at all.

By: Chris Parker

Chris Parker — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:52:50 +0000

What about something like Kross?

http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Kross-Tutorial

By: Janne

Janne — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:48:00 +0000

Aren’t you mixing the idea of scripting applications a la Applescript or Bash on one hand; and implementing applications by means of scripting on top of a base implementation on the other?

What most people are talking about is the second thing, not the first, and security is basically a non-issue since the scripting layer needs full, unhindered access to every nook and cranny of the base layer (having RemoveSong not be avaialbe to scripting would be like not allowing the Emacs lisp engine access to delete-word).

By: Sam Thursfield

Sam Thursfield — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:36:56 +0000

I’m quite happy with RemoveSong() being exposed, /as long as the script is reversible/. If I run a script and it deletes all my songs, my first thought is to undo, and if this works I have no complains.