file selector abstraction (GUI) (libfileselector.so)

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:15:34 +0100 Jakob Petsovits <jpetso at gmx.at> babbled:

> On Monday, 15. December 2008, Mark Seaborn wrote:
> > The purpose is for the file chooser to act as a security mechanism,
> > granting the requesting application access to the chosen file.
> 
> I hope that is meant as improvement of the user experience rather than an 
> actual security measure. If you just rely on the file selector to implement 
> security, you'll be bypassed for sure by some other method to open a file 
> (command line arguments, drag 'n drop, D-Bus, whatever you can think of).

absolutely. also a separate process means that apps cant modify the file
selector like add other custom widgets (eg like gimp does with image previews)
or other things packed into the selector created using their toolkit. you're on
an uphill battle here :)


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