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Re: Remove GSAppKitUserBundles


From: David Chisnall
Subject: Re: Remove GSAppKitUserBundles
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:38:48 +0000

On 16 Mar 2011, at 19:28, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> I would like to remove the loading of user bundles from NSApplication. 
> Currently the code will load all the bundles you list in the user default 
> setting GSAppKitUserBundles when starting up the application. Long time ago 
> this was a mechanism that allowed to implement themes in a primitive way. Now 
> we have a proper implementation for themes in place and now this setting is 
> just a security hole. (As are theme bundles, but this is a separate issue)
> 
> Is there any objection against removing this setting at the next release?


Yes, a very strong objection.  We depend on this functionality in Étoilé to 
load the EtoileBehavior bundle into all applications.

David

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