Auto-launching of applications

[Martin Pitt]

Chow Loong Jin [2009-02-26  0:04 +0800]:
> This brings to mind some issue that was mentioned earlier in this thread
> about how having these dialogs could encourage an influx of fake dialogs
> on websites that entice you to just click on it without looking.

This is no different than faking the update-notifier window itself.
With the current Linux desktop architecture, if you get a program
smuggled into the user's session, you pretty much won over both the
user's data and the machine. And a solution which would defend against
this would be so unusable that nobody would be able to get any work
done with it, I'm afraid.

> While I don't really think of this as a good idea, perhaps it would be
> good for first-time discovery of the software updates feature, so I'm
> not completely against it. However, it could get irritating in the long
> run, so how about having a checkbox "Don't show this update again"

I proposed "u-m should also provide an obvious path to enabling automatic
updates."; providing a checkbox in the dialog would not be very 
logical, though, since it doesn't make sense if you enable it and then
click "Remind me later", and it's even weirder if you say "[x] I don't
care", and at the same time actually install them :)

> and a dialog that says "You can access this window via _______" or
> something?

This could be an extra explanation at the place where you disable the
reminders.

Martin
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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
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