Hi, Jacob Appelbaum wrote (13 Oct 2012 11:02:17 GMT) : > As this is a modular kernel - is there a reason not to simply add > a "enable firewire" widget?
There are several I can see: * It is a UX failure every time someone has to go out of their way to have Tails work with their hardware. * Every such widget we add to Tails Greeter makes the greeter worse for every Tails user: more cluttered, more complicated. That's why I still prefer the "let's guess what the user wants" approach: if they plug a device in the "X" slot, that's probably because they want to use it, so let's keep the "X" bus enabled, and disable it else. OTOH, I understand your concern, and I now think the 5 minutes delay that was suggested may be a bit too long. We did not specify exactly when the 5 minutes countdown starts, anyway. Perhaps we could start an initscript right after GDM, have it sleep 1 minute, and then disable these dangerous buses if unused? (This gives a clear visual indication of when the countdown starts.) Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
