[Geany-devel] Fwd: Security issue in Terminal

2012-03-07 Thread Matthew Brush


Hi all,

Just forwarding this along from the Xfce list as Geany (and many other 
programs) also use this same library for the Terminal feature. I'm not 
convinced it's a big deal, but none-the-less users should be aware of 
it. See the link in the forwarded message for more information.


Cheers,
Matthew Brush


 Original Message 
Subject: Security issue in Terminal
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:28:58 -0500
From: David Rosenstrauch 
Reply-To: Xfce general discussion list 
To: x...@xfce.org

Has there already been a bug report filed for this security issue in
Terminal?

http://www.climagic.org/bugreports/libvte-scrollback-written-to-disk.html

Thanks,

DR
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Re: [Geany-devel] Usage of plugin_help()

2012-03-07 Thread Lex Trotman
Hi Frank,

Good question.


> Well... which means its not really defined what the user will expect
> once he push the button. Therefore we do have at least 2.5 major behaviors:
> - Geany is calling a browser and opening a webpage with info (spellcheck
> plugin)

Which gets a 404 error for me, and anyway expecting online connection
for a local plugin is *very* rude. If you provide a webpage make it
local.  And if it is online make sure it is available!

> - Its opening a message window with
>        * a short info about plugin (e.g. geanyLaTeX)
>        * a long help text about plugin (e.g. geanymacro)

Neither of these provide much "help", if its called help then provide
*user* help, not something useless. 

> Question is, what do we really want to have behind that function?

The delivery format is less important than actually providing help.

That said, a webpage provides some formatting that helps to structure
the information, but it does need to meet the "good webpage guide" as
defined by me ;-)  (can be resized, uses my default text size, not
more than 40em wide text lines, *nothing* is pixel based, works in all
major browsers)

Cheers
Lex
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