Re: Desktop apps interoperability

[Jim McCullough <jim.mccullough@gmail.com>]

There as been multiple instances on other lists where an "admin" or
"developer" has been totally ignorant of any type of security
practices.  Cases of do as I will and roll with the punches.  This
occurs on all platforms of development.   Freedom of implementation
should also require some common sense.  I like the content folders
Ivan suggested.   That would save people like me who are attention
defficiet a more structured schema for their fresh systems ( and prob.
save me a couple of hours on my own each build i have to do for myself
).
  
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Jim McCullough

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:44:22 -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2@cornell.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 18:26 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 09:04:26AM -0800, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, and I'm sure that you can do a configuration
> > > of most application defaults that will be good
> > > enough to demo. Application developers tend to
> > > have their own ideas regarding data storage and
> > > it is a bad idea for a system developer to
> > > interfere with said application developer's
> > > freedom to inovate.
> >
> >  ... application developer's freedom to impose insecurity,
> >  through ignorance on the part of the app-developer, upon
> >  the users?
> >
> >  no offense intended: freedom in an abstract concept [e.g. "the american
> >  way"] _always_ has limits - laws / rules / policy is defined to confine
> >  that freedom, for good or worse.
> 
> I don't understand what this has to do with the application developer.
> This is a discussion of desktop applications that manipulate content
> relevant to the user - not internal settings. The settings that go
> under /home are another issue - that would require changing the app,
> but they don't have to be changed all at the same time.
> 
> All those apps *ask* you where to store the content. You create a
> document of some sort, and you have a choice of where to put it.
> This has nothing to do with the app developer. It's just another
> restriction imposed on the user. Hopefully there's a way to get
> away with it, while staying user-friendly. That's why I'm suggesting
> content folders be introduced and integrated w/ GNOME's Places
> menu, for example. That seems like a small first step to improving
> things... no?
> 
> Ok, some apps like gift don't ask where to save the content,
> but that's the exception and not the rule.
> 
> --
> Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2@cornell.edu>
> Cornell University
> 
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