[Okular-devel] [Bug 267350] filling out a PDF form saves data to some file i ~/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata/

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 16:03, Dan Armbrust
<daniel.armbrust.list at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dan, I understand you are frustrated. But this here doesn't help to
>> solve the problem. In fact it makes it a lot less likely that Albert
>> or one of the other Okular developers will work on it. So ultimately
>> you are hurting your case.
>> Now let's move this forward constructively, please. There are several
>> ways to do this:
>> * Work on it yourself if you have the skills.
>> * Convince someone else to work on it.
>> * Wait until Albert or one of the other Okular developers finds time
>> for it. I am sure they have registered by now that this is important
>> to you.
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lydia
>> --
>> Lydia Pintscher
>> KDE Community Working Group / KDE e.V. board member
>> http://kde.org - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
>
>
> I'm really sorry that no one reading this thread seems to be able to
> comprehend the dis-service that KDE and Ocular are doing to their
> users.
>
> Okular is behaving almost as badly as a virus.

Again: It's obvious you are frustrated, Dan. But this isn't helping us
all solve the issue here.

> This should be treated as a security issue.  And it should be handled
> as one.  And fixed.  Quickly.

http://www.kde.org/info/security/ has details about security issues
and their handling in KDE.

> Instead, we have Albert denying that it is a problem... or, ignoring
> is, since hey,  there are all of these other ways that people could
> steal data, what harm will one more do?
> Even if someone else fixed it, he probably wouldn't accept the patch,
> since he considers it a "feature".

Did you ask if he'd accept a patch by someone else?

> This bug doesn't impact me.  Because I uninstalled Okular 2 years ago,
> when I discovered the problem.
>
> This bug impacts everyone else that ever uses Okular - they just don't
> know it.  So, I'm advocating for them, since no one else seems to
> care.

All of us here care about KDE. There are however _a lot_ of things to
care about in KDE. Too many of them in fact. This particular issue is
higher on your list than Albert's. That doesn't in itself make either
of you a bad person.

> I reported this issue to the developers two years ago.
> I even suggested a number of ways that it could be addressed.
> The most trivial of fixes would have taken a developer about 2 minutes
> - simply turn off the damn "feature" - or redirect it to /dev/null.
> But, no one will turn it off.

I assume there is a reason for that?

> So, we remain at a stalemate.  With Okular behaving like a virus.  And
> Albert calling it a feature.  No one else with the power to fix it
> cares, and the users get the shaft.

Please leave out the retorics. Then we can actually try to move this
forward. I'm trying to help you here.


Cheers
Lydia

-- 
Lydia Pintscher
KDE Community Working Group / KDE e.V. board member
http://kde.org - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher