Re: Oh yeah...apropos/web/tabbing in GNOME

["Dan Kaminsky" <effugas best com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Vogt <tom@lemuria.org>
To: gnome-gui-list@gnome.org <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Date: Thursday, July 23, 1998 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Oh yeah...apropos/web/tabbing in GNOME


>Dan Kaminsky <effugas@best.com> wrote:
>>
>> 4)  RECENT IS GOOD.  Recent apps, recent documents, recent *everything*
>> should be logged and available.
>
>agreed that it's good, but don't forget the security aspect in this. in
some
>(rare, but possible) special cases, this might be ILLEGAL due to privacy
>laws. I'm not joking, got this from someone who is working on data security
>and privacy with the german government.


No, it's only illegal to log "recents" if the user doesn't have a reason to
believe they're being logged.  I'd say having an entry off the gnomeprint
that says "Recent Apps" is pretty logical :-)  However, I agree.  It should
be very simple to turn this feature off, both in general and between
sessions.