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

[Peter Hosey]

On Apr 26, 2007, at 00:37:18, Colin Barrett wrote:
> 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.

A bit of an apple vs. apple-orange-hybrid comparison: We have had a  
few users (not legions, but a handful) who have been confused by  
iChat being online while they launched Adium. They thought iChat was  
not running because they had quit it, but the agent was still  
running, and it complained that it had been knocked off when Adium  
connected.

I also question whether it's even possible to extricate Adium's back  
end from its front end. They are quite densely intertwined. It would  
take quite a lot of heavy lifting to separate them.

My last worry about the proposed patch is whether it creates any  
security issues. AFAIK, it'd only be accesible from the same machine,  
but what damage could an evil process inflict if it could control  
Adium directly rather than through AS?
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\ Peter Hosey / boredzo at adiumx.com
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