Re: Document Centricity in GNOME [LONG]

[Moshe Zadka <moshez math huji ac il>]

On 10 May 2000, Alan Shutko wrote:

> > "Open Safely" gives the user the implication that opening a file normally
> > using the plain "Open" command in _unsafe_.
> 
> Yes.  Isn't it wonderful?  Users _should_ get the implication that
> opening a file "normally" is unsafe, because it is.  They should be
> afraid of it, and it should take a lot of convincing for them to open
> something with macros on.

Note that in an ideal world (the same one with 36 hour days), "Open
Safely" *will* run macros -- in a Java-like sandbox. (Tcl calls it Safe
Tcl, and Python calls this restricted execution)

Thus, the more "Open Safely" used, even for one's own documents (in case
there's a bug), the better.
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Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>
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