From kde-core-devel  Sat Oct 07 14:58:02 2006
From: Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 14:58:02 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Using scripting languages for KDE4 main modules
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On Saturday 07 October 2006 16:42, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

> =A0- a LOT of people know it from such applications as the web

I see this assertion a lot, and I really don't know whether it's right. The=
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are many web-people who have a little javascript -- but are they the people=
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who want to write a script to automate something in KMail? I don't doubt th=
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the majority of Quanta users know more Javascript than any other language=20
except for php, but KWord users? Is javascript at all used outside webpages=
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and OS X's desktop widgets?

The question is really: for whom do want to make our applications scriptabl=
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Who are going to write the scripts? Scripters who provide something=20
ready-made to users, corporate cubby-hole developers who are asked to fit t=
he=20
desktop to corporate guidelines and processes, ditto, but who need to plug =
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applications to company servers, users themselves who need an automated she=
et=20
generator for their role-playing game?

=46or plasma, it'll be the kind of scripter who is now writing superkaramba=
=20
scripts to put on kde-apps, in the hope that there'll be users. Javascript=
=20
will be his or her natural language since it's the same on OS X for the sam=
e=20
kind of thing.

=46or KOffice we really need a Basic interpreter to slot into Kross: that's=
 what=20
office users are familiar with. But at the same time, to empower the larges=
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number of users, we want to make it possible for every domain specialist wh=
o=20
happens to use KOffice to use the language they already know.

And so on... But I think that it's not a question that's been well-research=
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enough.

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Boudewijn Rempt=20
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi

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