Re: [Usability] time stamps and privacy

2008-03-26 Thread Caleb Marcus
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 17:22 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > This reminds me of the infamous Trash problem, where deleting a file on > removable media wouldn't really delete it but throw it in a local .Trash > folder instead. This may have been fixed in 2.22, I'm running 2.20, and it puts de

Re: [Usability] time stamps and privacy

2008-03-26 Thread Yuval Levy
Dokuro wrote: > how about an extra option at the moment of removing the media (linked > of commands or a script) that will wipe out all of the temp files for > that person in that moment specifically, that way security wise ppl > will get what they want and real owners of the computer, like the > p

Re: [Usability] time stamps and privacy

2008-03-26 Thread Dokuro
how about an extra option at the moment of removing the media (linked of commands or a script) that will wipe out all of the temp files for that person in that moment specifically, that way security wise ppl will get what they want and real owners of the computer, like the photo DVD case, will be c

Re: [Usability] time stamps and privacy

2008-03-26 Thread Yuval Levy
Shaun McCance wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 17:06 +, Ross Burton wrote: >> /me looks at the stack of DVDs with years of photos on. Don't make me >> re-thumbnail them everytime I insert a disc. ... > So we'd just annoy the majority of people in order > to fail to solve the problem of a mino

Re: [Usability] time stamps and privacy

2008-03-26 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 17:06 +, Ross Burton wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 17:22 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > > Back on topic, I recently read another thread about purging the > > thumbnails cache after a certain period. The solution to the problem > > brought up here should IMHO be that

Re: [Usability] time stamps and privacy

2008-03-26 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
> Back on topic, I recently read another thread about purging the > thumbnails cache after a certain period. My patch will probably be applied to gnome-settings-daemon after it branches for gnome 2.23. Thumbnails will be purged shortly after logon, and once a day after that. http://bugzilla.gn

Re: [Usability] time stamps and privacy

2008-03-26 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 17:22 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > Back on topic, I recently read another thread about purging the > thumbnails cache after a certain period. The solution to the problem > brought up here should IMHO be that thumbnails of files on removable > devices _can_ be created b

Re: [Usability] time stamps and privacy

2008-03-26 Thread Reinout van Schouwen
Op dinsdag 25-03-2008 om 18:45 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Caleb Marcus: > Ah, now I understand this better. Thanks for clearing it up. > > I have some sensitive images on media. I am on the road > > and I use a guest account on a third party’s computer to > > access a file on that media.

Re: [Usability] time stamps and privacy

2008-03-26 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
Yuval Levy wrote: > For me it does not work. My next step is to try KDE - maybe it's better > suited for my needs. But I a fear that my next computer will be a Mac. KDE will also follow the freedesktop thumbnailing specification, which specifies that thumbnails should be stored in ~/.thumbnails: