I think there should be a distinction between the implementation (ie a weather rss feed displayer) and the code needed to support something like this.
I think the code needed to support this should be included if the addon is required to essentially rewrite core files. For example I added the ability to use keyboard shortcuts to the core but unless someone adds a shortcut it doesn't affect most users - but if I had to do that for an add-on I would have to re-write major portions of search.htm just to gain the functionality. So I think that if the changes are relatively small, don't slow down general use, and allows add-ons to do amazing new things that we could add it into the core. Brent --- Monty Scroggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Simple searches would gain access to these > abilities without having to > > > be coded as an addon. Don't get me wrong - > though I love that addons > > > *can* be done, and have more abilities than > simple, or complex even, > > > searches, I'm not fond of relying on addons for > what I believe should > > > be basic functionality. > > > > You know, I feel the exact opposite way. I think > search.htm is already > > overloaded with functionality, and that stuff like > this should be > separately > > installable. A 31 KB .htm file consisting of > mostly javascript is not my > > idea of maintainable software. As far as I'm > concerned, the basic > > functionality of Dave's Quick Search Deskbar is > all in its name; a *quick* > > *search* *deskbar*. That's really all I need. > > > > I feel strongly about this... Bloat and scope creep > are the enemies of any > application. The whole reason the add-on > capabilities were added was to > allow the core toolbar functionality to be lean and > mean, and to allow extra > funtionality to be added to those who wanted it, > without affecting every > single user running the toolbar. There are still > parts of the toolbar that > an argument could be made to move to an addon, or at > least to standalone > functionality that could be disabled. This all > became an issue when the > problem of losing tray icons on windows startup > surfaced.. > > > The fact that it can do lots of other stuff for me > is mostly cool, but I > > rarely use any of the features, so I'd rather have > that I could install > them > > when/if I need them. > > > > But this is getting to be a tired argument :) My > vote is for an add-on. > > > > +1 > > > FWIW, > > Monty > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and > Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in > Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _______________________________________________ > DQSD-Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-devel __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ DQSD-Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-devel
