Re: [bug-buddy]: Custom scripts for your application

2006-11-30 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
That is really great! Finally, I get the way to get results of xprop -root | grep XKB and gconftool-2 -R /desktop/peripherals/keyboard/kbd without explicitly asking user in every bug report... BTW, is shipping information from gconf considered as a security problem? Thanks, lads Sergey

Re: [bug-buddy]: Custom scripts for your application

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Cameron
Olav: Isn't it possible to install .desktop files in the user's $HOME directory? If someone were to trick a user into installing a .desktop file with a script that does something malicious, is there anything to protect the user from the malicious thing happening the next time the program

Re: [bug-buddy]: Custom scripts for your application

2006-11-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:11:57PM -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: Olav: Isn't it possible to install .desktop files in the user's $HOME directory? If someone were to trick a user into installing a .desktop file with a script that does something malicious, is there anything to protect

Re: [bug-buddy]: Custom scripts for your application

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Cameron
Olav: Perhaps a decision about how it should work should be made and documented so people understand how it is intended to work? How what should work? Bug-Buddy or the bug-buddy info in the .desktop files? Information about how data is collected, what rules are used to ensure the right

Re: [bug-buddy]: Custom scripts for your application

2006-11-30 Thread Havoc Pennington
Brian Cameron wrote: Why not just add a GConf preference to bug-buddy so that users can simply turn off this feature if they don't want it to be on. Perhaps the first time data is forwarded a pop-up can be displayed asking the user if they want this feature on or off. This would be most

Re: [bug-buddy]: Custom scripts for your application

2006-11-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 01:15:26PM -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: Perhaps a decision about how it should work should be made and documented so people understand how it is intended to work? How what should work? Bug-Buddy or the bug-buddy info in the .desktop files? Information about how data

Re: [bug-buddy]: Custom scripts for your application

2006-11-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:29:38PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote: Brian Cameron wrote: Why not just add a GConf preference to bug-buddy so that users can simply turn off this feature if they don't want it to be on. Perhaps the first time data is forwarded a pop-up can be displayed

Re: [bug-buddy]: Custom scripts for your application

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Cameron
Olav: Information about how data is collected, what rules are used to ensure the right information is collected, how it can be configured, and what efforts are taken to ensure that the user's privacy is respected should all be documented, I think. So info for the paranoia user? Well, it

Re: [bug-buddy]: Custom scripts for your application

2006-11-30 Thread Elijah Newren
Hi Brian, On 11/30/06, Brian Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So info for the paranoia user? Well, it is going to a public bugtracker. This probably should be made clearer so that user can just cancel/disable the entire bug-buddy. I think it is good to document how this works so that

Re: [g-a-devel] GnomeClient replacement?

2006-11-30 Thread Jani Monoses
James Henstridge wrote: On 26/07/06, Fernando Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/26/06, James Henstridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. gnome-settings-daemon is modified to set the gtk-modules XSETTING, based on the existing gconf key. If accessibility is enabled, it sets it to

Re: [bug-buddy]: Custom scripts for your application

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Cameron
Elijah: Stack traces can already potentially contain private info. The current method is: 1) Program crashes 2) Bug-buddy is launched, gathers data, and notifies the user what happened 3) Bug-buddy notifies the user that sensitive data may have been collected and lets them know how to