Draft template for registration of KOffice mimetypes (last call)

[Marc Mutz]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Monday 20 May 2002 21:14, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
<snip>
> >         KApp documents include document metadata such as the name
> > of the author, etc. However, none of this data is written
> > automatically. The KApp user has full control over what metadata is
> > to be included and must actively request the inclusion. As such,
> > the use of this mimetype does not lead to hidden leaking of
> > possibly sensitive data.
>
> That seems wrong to me too! (At least for KWord.)
>
> The document information *is* automatically written. And the default
> information is not empty (for example author name and email address)

Last time I looked at a fresh KWord document, all fields in the 
"Document Info" dialog were blank. Did this change in the meantime?

> The "full control" is the dialog in which you can edit the document
> information. However, you have to do it again for each file.
<snip>

IIUYC, KWord writes default author information without asking the user?
Like extracting the full name from /etc/passwd and writing that into 
every document that the user creates???
Bah. I thought we had learned something from MS errors. :-(

Next thing will be embedding scripts in .KWD files?
Just joking... (hopefully!).

Marc

- -- 
Marc Mutz <mutz at kde.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQE86VZO3oWD+L2/6DgRAtiiAKDXAtGb1is2plHaSme6jE62zvuWTwCdGIay
aVj1gXIldcX+8a4YVdxR/KU=
=9ujF
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----