Re: theme and a question about creating them

[Chong Yidong]

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.