Cyrille Berger wrote:
> On Saturday 07 October 2006 22:09, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
>> and this is my concern: we'll end up with 8 different choices in 8
>> different apps due to the author's personal preferences or feelings on what
>> a user is and should be capable of doing. Cyrille noted that there is a
>> commitment to support js in koffice and if so, that would suffice as far as
>> i'm concerned.
> 
> or we could all use a framework that allow scriptability through js, ruby, 
> python, (whatever) and dbus for a little effort, and with the same level of 
> support. With the interpreter available on the machine if the user has 
> install it, meaning that js and dbus will allways be available. And python 
> and ruby will be available if the user has install them on its computer.
> 

This is exactly the content of my talk at Desktop Developer Conferenece
this year.
http://www.figuiere.net/hub/talks/ddc2006/

Maybe it is worth looking at.
And that is what Apple did with OSA.

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