Re: Document Garble plugin

From: Martin Sevior <msevior_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu Aug 13 2009 - 14:01:41 CEST

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:27 PM, J.M. Maurer<uwog@uwog.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 11:05 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>> HI Marc,
>>            I have no objection to this being installed as new
>> supported plugin provided it is not enabled unless explicitly
>> requested. ie --enable-garble will build it but --enable-all will not.
>
> Why should it be disabled by default? It makes a lot more sense to have
> it enabled by default: when people come across a bug, they can garble
> the document and send it it. You can't tell normal users to recompile
> abiword.
>

My thinking was that users could accidently use this plugin and
destroy their document.

If that is not the case, and the saved the document never overwrites
anything useful, then sure enable it.

Cheers

Martin
Received on Thu Aug 13 14:01:55 2009

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