Lionel, Whoever made the decision (in this case probably some usability expert), will have to at least reconsider his/her decision in face of a real security risk even if to confirm it later. In my email, please read developer in a more general sense, as someone in the development team who is responsible for such decisions.
Paulo 2009/11/17 Lionel Dricot <pl...@ploum.net>: > Le mardi 17 novembre 2009 à 21:17 +0000, Paulo J. S. Silva a écrit : > >> That is a major point. If there anyone can mimic the pop-up behavior >> using a website maybe, and I mean just maybe, we can get the >> developers attention on this possible security role. > > This should *NOT* be a developer decision as it's only a matter of > checking a box in GConf. > > This is an usability decision (and maybe also a security related > decision). > > Some of the best developers out there are simply not able to think about > usability (even if they often think they are) and some of the best > usability specialists cannot write a Hello World. Definitely not the > same job. > > -- > [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new > update-manager behaviour is annoying > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332945 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Paulo José da Silva e Silva Professor Associado, Dep. de Ciência da Computação (Associate Professor, Computer Science Dept.) Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil e-mail: pjssi...@ime.usp.br Web: http://www.ime.usp.br/~pjssilva -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332945 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
