On 8/22/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:18:52 -0400 > "Owen Taylor" <otaylor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I have a *strong* opinion here that it's *never*, *ever* right to ask > > the user a question when installing or removing a package. A question > > is going to be of the form: > > > > A) This operation may trash your system [detail that the user doesn't > > understand removed]. Proceed? > > > > B) The package that you are installing might be created by an evil > > haxor and do bad things [details that the user doesn't understand > > removed]. Proceed? > > For me it's not asking the users these questions, it's asking the user > for their password to proceed (with a timeout). OSX does this, and we > seem to base a lot of our "good usability" on what they do. If a > friend wants to just look at their web mail, why should they switch > users to a guest account? Why can't I just hand them the laptop and > let them use the already running browser? If something popped up to > install software I don't want them to be able to just have it happen, I > want the password prompt to show up so that if they aren't me, or > weren't me that provided a password in the last 5 minutes, I don't want > them to be able to do it. I don't think this is unreasonable as a > default everywhere. It's just like we made the local user(s) sudo > enabled and rely upon that sudo mechanism to accomplish system level > tasks. > The other half of this is it should not just be the users password that is acceptable. We need to make sure an admin can sit down at a machine and perform these operations without mucking around with profiles or switch terminals. This functionality is becoming more and more necessary, where children have a restricted desktop. We want to make it very easy for parents (admins) to install a new game for their kids in a straight forward manner. -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
