Re: Document Centricity in GNOME [LONG]

[famrom idecnet com (Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero)]

>Port filtering isn't the solution.  (Oh, yes, you now need root to
>make your sandbox safe?)  Besides, it would only keep you safe from
>other machines, not the machine you're on.  SSH is basically the same
>problem... all ssh would do is allow you to redirect ports so that you
>can connect to it.

Oopps, true.

>Personally, I'd rather see Xnest fixed to run all apps (which is a
>generally useful thing, because Xnest rocks for debugging).

And I, cos it will allow other tricks like putting Gimp in a big window, a
thing that some users want (like in MS Windows). At this moment Xnest seems
to be more a toy than a real app, at least after my tries.

GSR