Spotlight should allow arbitrary actions based on arbitrary
filters, and then 3rd parties will come up with great ways to use
them.
I think that's what Automator is for.
Not quite! I don't see a list of arbitrary actions,
If you want completely arbitrary actions, you need a general purpose
programming language. Xcode contains templates for Applescript, Cocoa
and shell script Automator actions. Or do you propose the
introduction of yet another programming language specific to Automator?
I see a list of actions that a few applications can perform, that
have typed inputs and outputs, further restricting their domain.
Well, some people like dynamically typed or untyped languages, others
like statically typed languages (with inheritance available). I am in
the second category.
How many users use Automator to automate their workflows?
I have no idea.
It would be more useful to allow a raw data stream or file as input
to an action, with the output being a raw data stream or file. The
actions themselves would just be arbitrary processes.
The latter is already possible.
Hey, sounds like a shell script, but one that GUI developers could
provide quick and easy support for more often than not.
I really don't see how most GUI apps could handle random streams of
binary data. Every bit of data passed around via the clipboard has a
type associated with it, because if it were just random data e.g.
Keynote wouldn't know whether it were an image or a bunch of junk
text you want to paste. Maybe what you want are explicit type casts?
Whatever, my point was more that Apple should spend a bit more time
crafting what they already made and somewhat less on the Next Great
Thing. Just my opinion. :-)
I do agree with this point.
Jonas
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