[Adium-devl] Out of process plugins (was: Distant objects)

[Colin Barrett]

*shrug* You can do what you want, I guess, but I was never a fan of  
iChatAgent style things, personally. I think it's a really bad UI  
precedent and that a lot of people are confused by it. I don't have a  
usability study to back me up, but It would make more sense to me to  
have Adium open, and be online. Adium closed, be offline. I'm of the  
mind we should avoid it.

Just my personal opinion though.

-Colin

On Apr 25, 2007, at 4:46 AM, Joe Ranieri wrote:

>> Very interesting! This could allow us to, in theory, run 3rd party
>> plugins out of process, thus protecting our internal APIs that
>> shouldn't be exposed, and preventing Adium from crashing when a 3rd
>> party plugin does something dumb.
>
> Not exactly what I had in mind, hehe. I was thinking more of an
> iChatAgent style daemon (which I've dubbed DaemonDuck :-P). I've
> started at refactoring out stuff to do this but it'll take a while...
>
> -- Joe Ranieri
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