Lightroom & CS actions

Hi all
It would be nice for the workflow not to use photoshop unless you want to perform advanced editing that only it can do. For common task like sharpening & blending using third party plugin's like Noise Ninja & DRI pro it would be great if these would or could be run from within LR & not use CS at all.
Is this planned or what do you all think. I believe it was dicussed prior to the release version in the beta forums but things have now moved on or moving on so any new thoughts.

Such Third party actions would have to be rewritten for LR. The SDK has yet to be published, so it will be a while. Rumor has it that their will be a NN Module.
If you own NN Pro you can do a pointer to it in Export Action Folder now, for Export use.
Don
Don Ricklin, MacBook 1.83Ghz Duo 2 Core running 10.4.9 & Win XP, Pentax *ist D
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