Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add GTK UI to enable basic accessibility (v2)

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

On 03/12/2012 11:39 AM, François Revol wrote:
> On 12/03/2012 03:31, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> On 03/11/2012 01:24 PM, François Revol wrote:
>>> GTK itself causes problems, because, it's not ported, thus not
>>> available, to all platforms QEMU can run on.
>>>
>>> It's certainly not available on Haiku at least.
>>
>> There is no perfect solution here.  I think GTK is the best that's out
>> there.
>
> Well as long as it's not mandatory...
>
>>>>> By using GTK, we can leverage VteTerminal for screen reader
>>>>> integration and font
>>>>> configuration. We can also use GTK's accelerator support to make
>>>>> accelerators
>>>>> configurable (Gnome provides a global accelerator configuration
>>>>> interface).
>>>
>>> Hmm the thing using libvte that uses /tmp to insecurely store terminal
>>> backlogs ? ;-)
>>
>> Yeah, I saw it on a blog, it must be true!
>
> Well it is true, just fill up your /tmp and see the backlog stop working
> in gnome-terminal. I did it unintentionally the other day... :P

The issue is viewing '/tmp' as "insecure".  Per-user TMPDIR has existed almost 
for a decade now.  Moreover, /tmp files can be created safely using the 
appropriate syscalls (which VTE uses).

If you're worried about securing your data and are surprised by the fact that 
/tmp isn't encrypted, you should be using full disk encryption because /tmp 
isn't the only place that needs to be worried about.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> François.
>