Authorized clients

[Jasper St. Pierre]

If the user installed an app that takes screenshots of the screen
periodically and dumps them to a disk, I'd imagine that's functionality he
wanted. Why would we prompt him?


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Martin Peres <martin.peres at free.fr> wrote:

> Le 08/01/2014 19:47, Jasper St. Pierre a écrit :
>
>  Prompting the user "are you *sure* you really meant to take a screenshot?
>> Yes/No" when he presses Print Screen is just a way to piss her off.
>>
> Please don't mix everything and read carefully what I said.
>
> Pressing "Print screen" IS the event that proves the physical user of the
> computer wants it, not another app. No need for a popup.
> The pop up is only useful if no user intent is not known by the
> compositor. That is to say, when an app that didn't get run in response to
> a print-screen hot key tries to get a screenshot, it shouldn't be allowed
> without the user's consent.
>
> What Sebastian wants is simply to have a pool of trusted apps who can
> access restricted interfaces. I find this insufficient for the reasons I
> listed before (what happens if you install an app that allows taking
> screenshots and save them to a file automatically? without any input from
> the user? Well, you just lost the confidentiality of your display, too
> bad...).
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>



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  Jasper
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