[Pidgin] #8909: Runtime parameters for use in pounces

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#8909: Runtime parameters for use in pounces
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 Reporter:  Little.Ben   |        Owner:  lschiere    
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  closed      
Milestone:               |    Component:  unclassified
  Version:  2.5.1        |   Resolution:  fixed       
 Keywords:               |  
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Changes (by deryni):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => fixed


Comment:

 This would almost certainly be better handled by a plugin interfacing with
 an espeak API rather than as a command to run. As any time you run a
 command with user-specified input you open up potential vulnerabilites in
 ways that APIs do not (generally) suffer from.

 Also, there have been in the past any number of festival and f-lite
 plugins which did almost exactly this same thing (almost all of which also
 simply used the command line tool instead of any API, and thus were
 potentially dangerous).

 Also on the [ThirdPartyPlugins#Notifications Third Party Plugins] page you
 can find the Audible Alerts plugin which uses espeak to do what you want,
 it writes the data to a file and calls espeak on that file which is better
 than many attempts at this manage but still not as useful as using an API.

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