Review Request: Copy files instead of moving if parent dir is not writable

Ivan Cukic ivan.cukic at kde.org
Wed Mar 28 07:59:28 UTC 2012


On Wednesday, 28. March 2012. 9.52.20 Djuro Drljaca wrote:
> Why don't you just let the user decide what he wants to do ... let him
> choose between "move to private activity" and "copy to private
> activity".

It is all or nothing. If you allow the user to choose anything related to 
security, it will allow him to make mistakes and to forget something that 
should be encrypted outside of the encryption box.

Security first, pleasant user interaction far second.

Cheerio

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