On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:51:29 -0400, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Really? I think we're moving more towards a model on mobile devices where > there *is* no logout/reboot except by accident in a large number of cases. > I think the mobility argument is a very valid one, but it isn't truly specific to mobile devices. I log out/log back in on my desktop or laptop about as much as my phone runs out of juice, sorta speak (unless I forget my phone in Rheinfelden, that is). What we have to remember is the type of security issue you would want to require a reboot/restart for. If it's a memory leak, for instance, then hey all of a sudden my device isn't going to work the way I want it. I'll restart the application myself, or reboot my device. Either one is pretty much intuitive to a no-know, including my girlfriend (in fact it's the first thing she does and *then* she calls me her PC was sooooo slow, and she's glad a reboot solved the problem *sigh*). If it's a majorly important "you-are-going-to-be-hacked-standing-too-close-to-starfucks" type of security issue, then hey... your call drops, your application restarts, and maybe you lose a session where you had this amazing one-liner with all kinds of ifs and fors and whiles and awks and seds. There's a price either way for these kinds of bugs, right? -- Jeroen -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
