Well, Rene is right, but I also agree that it should be easy for people to delete the list.
Instead of some config item in a dialog, which nobody will find, an extra menu item at the end of the list (with a separator above) would be nice: "Clear list...". Or introduce some config in the dialog where the user also can configure the entry count for that list. FWIK the value is in some xcu file, but there is no UI for changing it. (BTW, Nathanael - I guess with changing that value to 0 you can disable the list) I am not aware of what other kind of private data OOo collects while being used. If it's more than just this, I would prefer an other solution: "Clear private data" like in FireFox. Wrt the wish to automatically remove entries where the document is no longer available: This is not so obvious for me. I sometimes open documents from encrypted containers or network shares which I mount on demand only, or from USB devices, so opening the menu in the wrong time would remove these items (not that I would care about it... ). It can also be a time consuming task to figure out whether or not the document still exists, even for file URLs (because of slow network connections, auto mounts, ..). Malte. PS: Nathanael - please avoid so many all-capital-letters words in your email. I and probably many other people don't read such mails if people are 'shouting' that much. I only did read it because it had the word security flaws in the heading... Rene Engelhard wrote, On 04/16/09 10:08: > Hi, > > Nathanael Kennedy wrote: >> There are serious problems, even at a security level, with OpenOffice... >> >> There is no EASY OR STRAIGHTFORWARD WAY to DELETE the entire list of "Recent >> Documents". Documents I no longer care about, I of course delete. >> DOCUMENTS REMAIN ON THE "RECENT DOCUMENTS" LIST LONG AFTER THEY'VE BEEN >> DELETED (FOR MONTHS, SOMETIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) This is a serious >> annoyance & could even be considered a serious security flaw on a computer >> used by several individuals. > > Nonsense. For this, you have separate accounts for the people and each person > has its own local configuration -> no problem when sharing the pc. > > No security thing at all, an annoyance maybe, yes, but if yu can't set up > your computer *properly* for multi-user.... > > Regards, > > Rene > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
