One man's hack, another man's feature... :)
I don't get what all the fuss is about in that article. I see their point, and I believe it's completely legit, but how is that different than running, let's say, system daemons like apache or an ftp server? As long as you trust the source, I don't see the problem... It's not like you have to enable something that will allow third parties to install Input Managers automatically, you have to do it yourself... It just boils down to whether or not I'd be willing to run a certain program on my machine that performs system wide changes, and the answer is only if I trusted the source..
I guess this is a whole different can-of-worms... For example for all my preaching, I have uninstalled Greasemonkey from my Firefox installation... Once third-party extensions become so easy to make/ install, then one can get carried away. But it doesn't change the fact that I have a total of 6 input managers installed, all of which provide features I find invaluable... Chax, iGlasses, 2 growl plugins (safari and iPhoto), SIMBL (for SafariStand - which I'm considering for removal just because it affects so much more than what SafariStand requires), and edit in textmate... Granted, I would not install any of these on a server machine, but then again I wouldn't be coding on a server machine either :) (well, not much anyway)...
2c
On 3 Jul 2007, at 21:37, Matt Neuburg wrote:
On 7/3/07 11:10 AM, in article 860860F4-D258-4B03-B868-CB0310C23F0A@gmail.com, "Constantinos Neophytou ♎" jaguarcy@gmail.com wrote:
Included with TextMate is an “Edit in TextMate” input manager which you can install
For some of us, not an option, alas:
http://db.tidbits.com/article/8430
Anyway, that's just piling irony on irony. I can't edit a bundle command using TextMate, so there's an Input Manager hack that hacks TextMate so I can??? :) m.
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