Package: apper Version: 0.7.2-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I recently tried apper as a gui for system-updates, and it mostly does what it should. However, everytime it requests authorization for gaining administrative privileges, the Polkit dialog has "Remember Authorization" enabled by default. Why I think the current default is a bad choice: If one doesn't want the dialog to remember the credentials, one currently has to change the selection _every_single_time_ the dialog comes up. Changing the default to "don't remember password" makes the user less likely to choose the wrong setting in this case. If the user forgets to change the setting, the dialog will not come up again, so the user is then stuck with the "wrong" setting. If one really wants to never see this dialog again, one can choose "Remember Authorization" once and won't be much worse off than now. Especially, if he/she forgets to select the "remember password" box, he/she gets a chance to select the correct setting the next time the dialog is displayed. I'm unsure whether I should file a bug against apper or polkit-kde-1 for this issue (and which package is to blame for the preselection of "remember password"). Please reassign to polkit if the bug is more appropriate there. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apper depends on: ii apper-data 0.7.2-4 ii kde-runtime 4:4.8.4-1 ii libc6 2.13-35 ii libdebconf-kde0 0.2-2 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-4 ii libkcmutils4 4:4.8.4-3 ii libkdecore5 4:4.8.4-3 ii libkdeui5 4:4.8.4-3 ii libkemoticons4 4:4.8.4-3 ii libkidletime4 4:4.8.4-3 ii libkio5 4:4.8.4-3 ii libkprintutils4 4:4.8.4-3 ii libkutils4 4:4.8.4-3 ii libkworkspace4abi1 4:4.8.4-3 ii libpackagekit-qt2-2 0.7.6-1 ii libqt4-dbus 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 ii libqt4-network 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 ii libqt4-sql 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 ii libqt4-svg 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 ii libqt4-xml 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 ii libqt4-xmlpatterns 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 ii libqtcore4 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 ii libqtgui4 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 ii libsolid4 4:4.8.4-3 ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-4 ii packagekit 0.7.6-1 ii policykit-1-gnome 0.105-2 ii polkit-kde-1 0.99.0-3 Versions of packages apper recommends: ii app-install-data 2012.06.16.1 Versions of packages apper suggests: pn apper-appsetup <none> pn debconf-kde-helper <none> pn software-properties-kde <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
