[Adium-devl] Exposed preferences via AppleScript

[Matt Handley]

Um, I think accounts should probably not be programmatically
controlled. I can't see an application for it. Why would someone want
to save time by writing a script that creates or deletes accounts?

As for your (that's a collective your) other suggestions, I think they
are good. No password getting or setting. Check. No other big security
holes. Check. :)

As for the 'rest' of the preferences, is there an easy way of looking
at all of them at once? A list, say, would be handy, as I would then
be able to search for the preference name, which would then point me
to the method I need to set that preference. I would simply check out
the plist file, but I think that it only contains options I've changed
from the default, rather than every possible option. Am I right here?

Matt



On 8/17/07, Colin Barrett <timber at lava.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 16, 2007, at 7:08 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:
> 1. Only allow these if Adium is active. If you don't activate Adium,
> you can't create or delete accounts from Adium.
> 2. When a script tries to do that, it presents a dialog box. Adium
> doesn't reply to the event until the dialog box is answered. If the
> request is refused by the user, Adium returns userCanceledErr.
>
> Fine ideas, but the second one in particular is a nontrivial a bit of
> engineering work. Is being able to add and delete accounts valuable enough
> that it's worth our time to implement something like that? I'm inclined to
> say no. Although those *were* good suggestions :)
>
> Matt, what are your thoughts?
>
> -Colin
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