[CrackMonkey] Do you GUI writers dream of such a question...?

[Joakim Ziegler]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:28:36PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> On the other hand, those who think GUIs are useful (be they antiquated WIMP
> systems or not) would do well to research secure ways of dealing with
> scripting.

> How did AppleScript fare security-wise?

> NeXT?

> Radagast: Any plans on the GNOME front? (No need to mention gnomebasic by
> the way, the less said, the better)

There's a common misconception that gb is going to be some sort of general
scripting system for GNOME. It's not. It's going to run in a sandbox, in
Gnumeric, so those few Excel sheets that use embedded VB to do advanced
calculations stuff can be used in Gnumeric. No local disk access, etc.

As for general scriptability, well, in an ideal Bonobo world, you can talk to
any component using any scripting language that has CORBA bindings (and
preferably Bonobo convenience functionality), and do whatever you can in the
GUI. Now, most GNOME software can't be used like this yet, but there's a big
push to componentize stuff. Leading the way at the moment are Gnumeric,
Nautilus and Evolution.

Oh, and Star/Open Office is going to be all Bonobo components, and thus
generically scriptable as well.


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