.desktop security changes are committed

[Celeste Lyn Paul]

On Sunday 22 February 2009 01:04:48 pm Torsten Rahn wrote:
> Well, I'd click through anyways just because I have a low attention span
> and I don't feel like reading an amount of text like that. I think that the
> text still needs to be trimmed down quite a bit.

The problem with clickthrough is that if you do that without understanding 
what you are doing, you can do something potentially harmful. We want to try 
and prevent that.

Right now there is so much text in the dialog that it almost discourages you 
from reading it. I was hoping to try and make the first sentence as a one-stop-
shop of what is going on (in case you dont read the rest of the dialog), but 
it is still a bit too long to quickly understand what is going on. You are 
right that the text needs to be trimmed down a bit. Less text will make it 
easier and more inviting to read and help reduce those unthought 
clickthroughs.

~ Celeste

>
> Regards,
> Torsten
>
> On Sunday 22 February 2009 18:38:21 Michael Pyne wrote:
> > Subject says it all.  Nothing's set in stone until we release ;) so if
> > you have comments/suggestions for improvement/etc. please let me know. 
> > The dialog is a bit different now than what I started on, hopefully this
> > final version is enough to avoid "click-through":
> > http://purinchu.net/dumping-ground/krun4.png I received some much
> > appreciated feedback from seele (although any usability errors are of
> > course my own).
> >
> > Alexander Larsson is handling the same thing for GNOME, and they have
> > changed their file view to only "sniff" for desktop files that are
> > executable or in the system directory, and only files with a .desktop
> > extension.
> > (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-
> > February/msg00132.html)
> >
> > I think it'd be a good idea to continue further on and match that UI
> > handling. Is there any reason we shouldn't?
> >
> > Regards,
> >  - Michael Pyne

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Celeste Lyn Paul
KDE Usability Project
usability.kde.org