Sounds very natural to me. My only concern is how to expose this to command authors without having them just ignore it.
Also, I really want to turn my lights on and off with Ubiquity now. - Blair On 5/06/09 2:24 AM, "mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)" wrote: > >> Natanael, I like the idea of registering subverbs (to coin a new (and >> confusing) phrase) against a set of overlord verbs which semantically >> go together. I envision this as having different "buckets" to register >> against... one for search engines, one for "things you can add things >> to", one for "things you switch on and off" etc. >> >> For example, perhaps we could register a "light switch" against >> "things you switch on and off". You do this once and then you can use >> "turn off light switch" and "turn on light switch". >> >> This would help with internationalization down the line, as well, in >> case we needed to have different overlord verbs with different >> argument structures for different different languages, but using the >> same "buckets". >> >> (There must be a better word for this than "buckets"...) >> >> mitcho >> Categories? > > Bindings? Hooks? > > But more importantly, how does this system sound to others? > > >>> > > -- > mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine) > [email protected] > http://mitcho.com/ > linguist, coder, teacher > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
