Re: New Spotlight Info
Re: New Spotlight Info
- Subject: Re: New Spotlight Info
- From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:29:38 +1100
Add to that the fact that no matter what permissions these plugins get
they must have read access at the least in order to read any file it
is given so if it finds emails, passwords, etc, it can still do bad
things. So since it can easily be installed by the app anyway, why not
have it in the App bundle then the Apps are still self contained and
when you remove the application you lose the ability to index files
created by that application, seems logical to me.
Actually, if Apple would include systrace in 10.4 (as I've asked at
least once, along with others) they could probably gate the plugin's
access to all resources, whether file or network or whatever. So they
could give it read-only access only to the files it needs to index, and
not allow it access to anything else at all. More than that, they
*could* give it write access or other things if necessary; the whole
point of fine-grain controls like systrace is to maintain flexibility,
which has been the main (and dare I say only) argument against a
"controlled" approach like this.
Personally, I wonder why Apple has never implemented a more powerful
front-end to app packages; why, for example, couldn't they provide a
list of plugins when you select the application in the Finder (in
column view or in the Get Info window), and allow you to manipulate
those plugins directly (drag & drop)? They could put in similar
interfaces with Spotlight importers and the like, with checkboxes as
appropriate (or whatever else) to enable/disable them, etc.
Yes yes, file an enhancement request. I am using Bugreporter again
these days, but I'm not *that* trusting again, yet.
Wade Tregaskis (AIM, Yahoo & Skype: wadetregaskis, ICQ: 40056898, MSN &
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