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[Sebastian Wick]

Am 2014-01-08 13:02, schrieb Martin Peres:
> On 07/01/2014 20:26, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
>> 
>>     Would it be ok for you if the compositor asked the user to agree
>>     for the program to
>>     do the operation? If so, we can guarantee that this is really the
>>     user's intent and
>>     allow the application. We can also add a security warning with a
>>     "Do not ask again"
>>     checkbox. Would it be satisfactory to you?
>> 
>> 
>> The user opened up a screen recording app. The user's intent is very 
>> much to record the screen. We don't need to ask the user again with a 
>> prompt.
> 
> How do you make sure it WAS launched by the user and not run silently
> by one application?
> That's the whole problem.

If the application starts recording the screen without user interaction
I would consider it broken.