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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Scripting Interface [2nd Try]
From:       Martin Konold <konold () suse ! de>
Date:       2001-07-22 17:59:47
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On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Andreas Pour wrote:

Hi Andreas,

> > Just to confirm that my take on this (as a KWord developer), is that I
> > don't want embedded scripts either. External scripts using DCOP can
> > do the job just fine, without the "macro virus" risk (a separate script
> > _will_ be treated as such - i.e. like an executable, with big warnings from
> > KMail and Konqueror -, whereas the document will only have the data.
>
> Hi,
>
> With all due respect to you as a KWord developer :-), I don't see the
> distinctions quite as clearly as you do.  Your point appears to be that

> download "documents" than "scripts" (I put these in quotes, I will get
> to this a bit later).  But if the users have to separaretely download
> and install a "script" to read a document properly, this will become as
> habitual as downloading documents.  Probably people will email the

Think about how much easier worms can spread if they can hide in a
document.

Yours,
--martin

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