On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Ciprian Popovici wrote: > On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:59:12 -0400 (EDT) "Scott R. Godin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > The fact that blackbox allows an *arbitrary* command there is a > > > rather large hole that *I*, for one, would rather not deal with. > > > > Sean, he actually makes a good point here. Would it be safer to > > specify the program to use for setting the background somewhere else, > > and just have the style specify the /path/to/image to be used as the > > background at this point? > > I can't argue with the security issue. On the other hand, you can do so > many nice things with that command, like change the background image as > well as gtk and kde theme and so on upon changing the BB style. I'd like > to keep that flexibility. > > As I see it, the compromise would be to have the "background program" > specified in the BB rc file and the background image path be passed as a > parameter. This way I can modify the background program and use a bash > script which will do whatever I want as well as change the background, > while being safe from malicious style files. > > Speaking of which, has there been any decision regarding the new BB > resource directory layout? IIRC there was an idea about moving > ~/.blackboxrc to ~/.blackbox/rc but that's about all I remember.
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