Re: [NVDA-dev] add-on manager modification

[Brian's M. l. a. B. <bg...@bl...>]

I don't think anyone does know. However, we do not actually want to discourage use of add ons from elsewhere if the user is prepared to take the risk. After all I'd assume if one really wanted to be nasty, one could write an add on that used nvda as a trojan to get at the data being typed in and  compromise the machine.
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dominic Canare 
  To: NVDA screen reader development 
  Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 11:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [NVDA-dev] add-on manager modification


  The first thing I thought of was notifications for new versions of addons. I'm new to the community though, so I'm not sure how often that happens.



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  On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:02 PM, James Teh <ja...@nv...> wrote:

    I'm not sure I see the point of this. We'd essentially be duplicating what a web browser does quite nicely. If NVDA is installed, you can just download/open the add-on from the web browser and it will start the installation process. That said, we should provide a button to open the add-ons site once it is a bit more polished/is more populated.

    Jamie



    On 29/03/2013 2:05 AM, Valiant8086 wrote:

      Hi.
      Anybody want to get the add-on manager to support the ability to list
      the add-ons on the NVDA website in a simple list view with the summery
      descriptions available in it's own UI and allow downloading of them
      directly? Jealous of the app installer thing in Window-Eyes lol. I was
      thinking just now that people who have separate repos might be able to
      create add-ons that bring up dialogues to list all the apps in that
      particular repo too. I like the idea of the separate repos being
      accessed via add-ons that come from those same repos though while having
      built-in access in NVDA's add-on manager to the main one on the NVDA
      website would be fantastic. Has anyone already created a ticket about this?




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