Re: More desktop security thoughts (was Re: GNOME privilege library)



On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 00:34 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Gwe, 2005-01-14 at 14:43, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > There aren't many places in GNOME where giving it bad input can break it.
> > Maybe the session manager, maybe GConf.
> 
> Very few gnome apps don't crash if fed crap. Its only the last release
> that a single pipe in the wrong place couldn't kill nautilus dead. If

We're talking bad user input, not bad admin/geek input.  A normal user
has a pretty small chance of doing something that breaks the desktop.
Any place they *can* break the desktop is absolutely due to a bug and
not a design problem and should be fixed - like the delete-last-panel
bug you mention.

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