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Arantor

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Re: Scheduled tasks interface
« Reply #15, on November 12th, 2010, 09:00 AM »
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Seriously, who would use "drawers" to discuss mods
Me :P

The terminology you propose is good :)
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Re: Scheduled tasks interface
« Reply #16, on November 12th, 2010, 10:13 AM »
Innit? :P

We'll have to remember this then.

What's going to be the main term? Extensions? Add-ons, or addons?

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Re: Scheduled tasks interface
« Reply #20, on November 12th, 2010, 11:53 AM »
I don't see myself adding the hyphen manually every time... Houston we have a problem. :P

Is it grammatically wrong to say 'addon'?

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Re: Scheduled tasks interface
« Reply #21, on November 12th, 2010, 11:57 AM »
Well, it's not *wrong* but from where I'm sitting, add-on is technically correct, because it's something you add on; it's sort of converting between a noun and a verb.

Whereas 'addon' is neither, and in fact in some parts of the UK, it's a corruption of the verb 'to don' as in to wear.

Add-on is, in addition to being 'correct', is also more accepted since it's what Firefox uses (even if their site is addons.mozilla.org)

I'm not actually that bothered; I'd just always write it with the hyphen because to me that's how I think it should be, and why I said about not being a hyphenazi ;)

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Re: Scheduled tasks interface
« Reply #22, on November 12th, 2010, 03:19 PM »
Yeah but we need an official terminology, so that'll be add-ons I guess ;)

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Re: Scheduled tasks interface
« Reply #23, on October 9th, 2011, 04:00 PM »
OK, dredging this one up.

I'm no longer convinced that it's actually necessary to revisit the scheduled tasks interface. See, it's all well and good being able to add a task but unless you've got some code to run it's not really worth it.

And with the plugin setup it's much easier to actually declare a scheduled task now (and if you're up to writing the code for a scheduled task to run, you're certainly capable of creating a minimalist plugin; there's a direct interface for receiving scheduled tasks in the XML structure of plugins, by design)

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Re: Scheduled tasks interface
« Reply #25, on October 9th, 2011, 06:32 PM »
That's the thing: I'm just not seeing the point. Way back when I put this topic out there, the plugin manager wasn't even the merest glimmer of imagination in my brain, I certainly hadn't fleshed out the notion of being able to add a scheduled task from a plugin with three lines of XML.

The whole point about the scheduled tasks stuff is that it's designed to be run under a minimalist setup, so that having a UI for it seems counter-productive.
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