Re: [Evolution] Re: [Evolution-hackers] Scripting in evolution

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On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 04:02, Brian wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 14:28, Jonathan F. Dill wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 14:06, Brian wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 13:45, Andy Cedilnik wrote:
> > >
> > > > I know this is border-line ms propaganda, but what do you think about
> > > > scripting support in Evolution?
> > >
> > > Why would you want such a feature?
> >
> > Intelligent spam filtering, spam reporting.  Auto-send "remove" or
> > "unsubscribe" e-mails.  Add custom applets to the UI perhaps?
>
> I would no more want Evolution to do those things than I would want it
> to "automagically dial the internet" as someone suggested earlier.
>
> The biggest bane of Outlook world has been scripting and automatic
> execution of third party executables of some form or stripe.  Maybe I'm
> in the minority on this one, but I just want a really good mailer
> without the potential for harm.  I think I could live without such a
> "feature".

You're confusing the issue.

This is not meta-application scripting, this is a method to expand the
local functionality of the application.  It would all be optional, and
transparent if you didn't want to bother with it (as with emacs).

Its nothing to do with outlook/javascript type scripting that send
application program fragments around via email and other insecure
methods.

Since you wouldn't want evolution to do it, you wouldn't type in the
scripts to do it.  Its no different conceptually than say, adding a new
menu item by editing the menu xml file, only much more flexible.