Controlling application features

摘要

A facility is provided for controlling application features. In various embodiments, the facility assembles an indication of features, starts a controlled application, and provides the assembled indication of features to the controlled application so that the controlled application can disable a feature of the controlled application. The facility can include a controlling application that is adapted for assembling a set of tokens that identify features by adding or removing tokens when a user of the controlling application selects a command associated with the controlling application, and a controlled application that, when invoked by the controlling application and provided the assembled set of tokens, controls a feature of the controlled application based on the assembled set of tokens.

主权项

1. A method performed by a computing system for controlling features of a controlled application from a controlling application, comprising:
collecting an indication of features of the controlled application into a set of tokens, wherein, each token in the set of tokens corresponds to a feature of the controlled application; starting the controlled application; reading configuration settings from a configuration file, the configuration settings based on one or more of: observed past interactions of a user and the user's network credentials; identifying, based on the configuration settings, features of the controlled application to be disabled, wherein the identified features correspond to one or more tokens in the set of tokens; altering the set of tokens to indicate the identified features of the controlled application to be disabled, the altering performed by removing the tokens from the set of tokens to which the identified features correspond; and providing the altered set of tokens to the controlled application, wherein the controlled application is configured to disable at least one feature of the controlled application based on the altered set of tokens.