On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Ton Roosendaal <t...@blender.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I understand the pain... apparently this header notice is not communicating, 
> even when people already expressed disagreement and knew the feature was 
> coming.
>
> However, you can set this all in user preferences to have things work forever 
> as you want. It'swell documented in release logs:
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Extensions/Python/Security
>
> One idea we missed to investigate was to make the default (for previous saved 
> startups) to mimic the old behaviour, so existing users wouldn't notice the 
> change. The new trusted source feature then would only get activated on new 
> installs or new userprefs after upgrading Blender.

We didn't miss this, thats how it works currently and I suspect why we
didn't get much feedback initially when the change was made.

But as users do new installs without using their old userprefs, or
reset factory-defaults, they run into this problem.

> -Ton-
>
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>
>
>
> On 9 Aug, 2013, at 22:30, Jace Priester wrote:
>
>> I expressed a lot of disagreement with the "Trusted" feature when there was
>> talk about implementing it, and I'm here to voice a complaint again now
>> that it has become a problem.
>>
>> I have created an animation using a scripted expression driver and that
>> driver's value evaluates to zero. I did not notice the "Continue Untrusted"
>> button appear at the top right. I've spent hours trying to figure out why
>> scripted drivers don't work, only to save and reload and then be prompted
>> to "Reload Trusted". This has been a gigantic waste of my time and is
>> precisely the reason I did not want this "trusted" junk in the first place.
>>
>> I am aware of the command line options to disable it, but I never expected
>> to have to do that. I understand the "Reload Trusted" prompt when opening a
>> file. However, when I create a brand new driver and enter the expression
>> myself it should work immediately. In any case, it damn sure should not
>> show a value of zero without a notice right next to it that it skipped
>> evaluation entirely. As-is, this is very misleading and indicates that the
>> expression did in fact resolve to a value of zero.
>> --
>>
>>
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