>However if the filter is broken, lack significant features or otherwise call >for support, that makes it a candidate for removal. I'll try to find some more in the wild instances of these formats and determine just how bad the support is. OS/2 Metafile was the worst in my previous testing so I'll look there first.
> As JanI says, cf. the ESC minutes - being the swiss-army-knife of file > formats that loads ~anything you can throw at it is quite important. Understood. Sorry I missed those ESC minutes. > Anyhow - I share your concern wrt. the attack surface that all these > old file filters provide for us; I attach a prototype patch that adds an > 'EXOTIC' annotation to our filter descriptions. It is missing a UI > Interaction Handler piece (cf. the hole with the notes and so on in > there ;-) - we'll need a new request type I guess. > > My ideal would be to pop up a dialog saying: > > "You're asking LibreOffice to open a very unusual file-type. > Unless you are certain that this file is indeed a <Lotus > Word Pro> file it is safest to not open it. > > [ ] - never show this again > > [ this is an unusual file ] [get me out of here ]" > > Of some kind =) is that something you'd be interested in working on ? Thanks for the first pass code. I generally don't find dialouges like that to be super useful (many users just click right through). However, in labeling them Exotic we could add a configuration option to let system administrators disable them all in one go for a secure site, etc. I'll look into that more. Thanks again both, Bryan _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
