Re: [PATCH weston] introduces a setting to give permission to any client to do screenshots

2013-12-17 Thread Timothée Ravier
"official" packaged screenshot applications. No setuid application is involved here. However, I can't think of a way to make the "remember this application and don't ask me latter" feature work and be secure without a privilege elevation to store this setting. -- Tim

Re: [PATCH weston] introduces a setting to give permission to any client to do screenshots

2013-12-15 Thread Timothée Ravier
On 16/12/2013 00:21, Timothée Ravier wrote: > Thus packaged screenshot applications can include a privileged setup > step which add a file containing the application full path in a > directory writable only by root > (/etc/wayland/accepted-screenshoters.d/appname for example). The

Re: [PATCH weston] introduces a setting to give permission to any client to do screenshots

2013-12-15 Thread Timothée Ravier
creenshot logo right after a screenshot is taken so that a user looking at the screen would not miss it. This would also provide feedback to the user. The same thing could be done for screen recording. Cheers -- Timothée Ravier ___ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel

Re: Comment on global shortcuts security

2012-09-25 Thread Timothée Ravier
Le 25/09/2012 01:53, Bill Spitzak a écrit : > Keystrokes should be sent to the application first. Only if the > application refuses them should they be considered global shortcuts. According to me, the main goal is to _never_ have global shortcuts. That's why each applications should register the