Re: Software Update for X11
Re: Software Update for X11
- Subject: Re: Software Update for X11
- From: Rich Cook <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 11:05:17 -0800
I suggest we take this offlist, because it's off-topic. But like a
little dog, I have to bark one more time before then. :-)
On Nov 3, 2006, at 3:02 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 02 Nov 2006, at 22:48, Rich Cook wrote:
Spotlight should allow arbitrary actions based on arbitrary
filters, and then 3rd parties will come up with great ways to
use them.
If you want completely arbitrary actions, you need a general
purpose programming language.
No you don't need such a language. Let the programming receiving the
stream decide how to deal with it. The issue of languages is a red
herring and misses my point. Automator is another misguided attempt
by Apple to tell everyone how to play nice with each other, like Open
Doc, etc. Like communism, it's a great theory iff everyone signs
onto it. But like communism, it has an overhead and tends to exclude
outliers and unanticipated innovators.
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?
They would handle it very well if it were what they were expecting to
see, not so well if not. The idea of Apple imposing a system of
typing and filtering as Automator does means more difficult coding
and the need to somehow "register" your application with automator.
In my world, you could choose any binary, including a unix-based, non-
GUI one, and it just might work if you fed it the "stdout" of another
application. It works very well in Unix, where everything is a file.
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.
Me too! :-)
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