Changing Cookies/Popup Default Settings

[miro]

Hello,

I think that, nobody (99%) cares about cookies so a modal dialog is
definitelly not the way to go.
For the 1% of us throwing away all cookies or accepting them all is hardly a
solution either.
The evil IE puts a small eye on the statusbar each time a cookie is blocked,
and if clicked a menu with
options is showed.
Couldn't we reuse this idea?
I mean display a passive message for events that have a default action,
instead of a modal dialog.
Surely this is not limited to cookies, but that is a differet story.

Regards,
    Miro Pomsar

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dirk Mueller" <mueller at kde.org>
To: <kfm-devel at kde.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 14:08
Subject: Re: Changing Cookies/Popup Default Settings


> On Tuesday 23 August 2005 07:04, Stephan Binner wrote:
>
> > Yes, until configured otherwise. I just checked Firefox default and it
> > accepts cookies, even if coming from others sites, forever. Is that the
way
> > to go!?
>
> Firefox implements RFC2965 correctly though. As I looked into our
> implementation of privacy in cookie handling, it seems lacking severly in
> some cases. This needs to be improved anyway, just that silently accepting
> cookies makes us a slightly bit more vulnerable.
>
>
> > > but if it makes me lose persistent cookies then I won't agree agree :)
> > It's about new user defaults, your cookies should not be affected.
>
> Perhaps we should have an option in the status bar that allows the cookie
> dialog to pop up on demand, rather than blocking and waiting for user
input.
> Then you would be able to turn session-cookies into persistent cookies if
you
> like.
>
>
> -- 
> Dirk//\
>