Start Confirmations

[Jonas Norlander]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Paul Lemmons <paul at lemmons.name> wrote:
>
> -------- Original Message  --------
> Subject: Re:Start Confirmations
> From: Melissa Mendonça <melissawm at gmail.com>
> To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: 07/22/2009 12:06 AM
>>
>> With me it only happened once. Once I said "OK" in the dialog, it
>> never came back... Does the confirmation dialog appear again or does
>> it disappear after the first time you run these shortcuts?
>>
>> - Melissa
>
> Once I confirm it is ok the big red "!" goes away on the icon and I am not asked again. I got the same request for confirmation going into system settings, which is not a shortcut I created.
>
> While getting around the problem is fairly trivial it is bizarre that it happens at all. I feel like the idiot at Microsoft that designed all of the irritating request for confirmation has suddenly taken up an
> Open Source hobby at KDE development.
>

I don't understand why so many has problems with this, it's a security
risk (not a big one but still...) and it's not the UNIX way to be able
to execute programs if not the execute-bit is set on the file.
Speaking of Microsoft and Vista why do so many have problems with
that? You have to type a password in Linux to when accessing hardware
or changing things in the system.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2009-February/010209.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-February/msg00132.html

/ Jonas