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Re: theme and a question about creating them
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Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: theme and a question about creating them |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:49:56 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> Maybe we should just go back to unconditionally loading theme files,
>> since it's unlikely we can make evaluating Elisp code truly safe.
>> Any objections or alternative ideas?
>
> IIUC the problem is that users tend to expect themes to be "just data",
> without any possible risks, so they may try themes they download from
> random places on the web.
>
> So, I think it's OK to use unsafep to weed out the "safe" themes, and
> prompt users for the remaining themes. But the prompt should make it
> clear that we have no determined the theme to be dangerous, just that
> Emacs did not recognize it as obviously safe and is unable to assess
> whether it's dangerous or not.
Sounds reasonable.
Re: theme and a question about creating them,
Chong Yidong <=
Re: theme and a question about creating them, Chong Yidong, 2011/01/08