Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-24 Thread Andreas Sturmlechner
---Original Message--- On Wednesday, 22 February 2017 at 23:05, Wolfgang Bauer wrote: > My plan (now) is to query Solid for removable devices (not only Floppy > drives), and offer them in the chooser too. > But this needs more thoughts... +1 on that - I have an actual use case for this where

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-23 Thread Martin Gräßlin
Am 2017-02-22 23:20, schrieb Wolfgang Bauer: Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2017, 22:01:01 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: The attack surface is exactly the same as any other X application. It's X itself which will make this exploitable. Yes, obviously, and that's clear to me too. I won't comment on the

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-22 Thread Wolfgang Bauer
Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2017, 22:01:01 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: > The attack surface is exactly the same as any other X application. It's > X itself which will make this exploitable. Yes, obviously, and that's clear to me too. I won't comment on the rest, because it's not specific to kfloppy as

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-22 Thread Emmanuel Pescosta
2017-02-22 22:42 GMT+01:00 Martin Steigerwald : > I wonder whether it makes sense to make it a more generic format tool that > can > also format USB sticks. Then it may make sense to give it a more generic > name. > This sounds like a good idea! ... and a great opportunity

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-22 Thread Wolfgang Bauer
Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2017, 22:42:01 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2017, 20:07:09 CET schrieb Wolfgang Bauer: > > Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2017, 01:07:42 schrieb Boudhayan Gupta: > > > I really don't see why this has to exist. Anyone who uses floppies in > > > this day

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2017, 20:07:09 CET schrieb Wolfgang Bauer: > Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2017, 01:07:42 schrieb Boudhayan Gupta: > > I really don't see why this has to exist. Anyone who uses floppies in > > this day and age knows how to use a command line to do a low level > > format. > >

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-22 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El dimecres, 22 de febrer de 2017, a les 1:07:42 CET, Boudhayan Gupta va escriure: > I really don't see why this has to exist. Anyone who uses floppies in > this day and age knows how to use a command line to do a low level > format. Anything else can be done using the usual tools - KParted, >

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-22 Thread Martin Gräßlin
Am 2017-02-22 20:18, schrieb Wolfgang Bauer: Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2017, 18:55:00 schrieb Nicolás Alvarez: > On Feb 15, 2017, at 17:58, Wolfgang Bauer wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2017, 22:21:19 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: >> Please do not consider starting a GUI

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-22 Thread Wolfgang Bauer
Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2017, 18:55:00 schrieb Nicolás Alvarez: > > On Feb 15, 2017, at 17:58, Wolfgang Bauer wrote: > > > > Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2017, 22:21:19 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: > >> Please do not consider starting a GUI application as root a possibility. > > > > Ok,

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-22 Thread Wolfgang Bauer
Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2017, 01:07:42 schrieb Boudhayan Gupta: > I really don't see why this has to exist. Anyone who uses floppies in > this day and age knows how to use a command line to do a low level > format. Maybe, but using a GUI is more comfortable and you don't have to remember which

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-21 Thread Boudhayan Gupta
I really don't see why this has to exist. Anyone who uses floppies in this day and age knows how to use a command line to do a low level format. Anything else can be done using the usual tools - KParted, etc. Freundliche Grüße Boudhayan Gupta KDE e.V. - Sysadmin and Community Working Groups +49

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-21 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
> On Feb 15, 2017, at 17:58, Wolfgang Bauer wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2017, 22:21:19 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: >> Please do not consider starting a GUI application as root a possibility. > > Ok, but partitionmanager does exactly that. It restarts itself as root if run >

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-21 Thread Wolfgang Bauer
Am Donnerstag, 16. Februar 2017, 00:34:38 schrieb Luigi Toscano: > Really, please, let's try to find another solution than running as root. Yes, of course.. I'd like to clarify a bit though: I did (and do) prefer the kauth solution. I only considered offering to restart the application as root

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-17 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 12:05:03AM +0100, Wolfgang Bauer wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2017, 21:55:12 schrieb Boudhayan Gupta: > > What would you say about using Solid to probe floppy drives? I think > > Solid already has the necessary hooks, but if it doesn't, we can add > > them. > > Sounds

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-15 Thread Martin Gräßlin
Am 15. Februar 2017 23:58:50 MEZ schrieb Wolfgang Bauer : >Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2017, 22:21:19 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: >> Please do not consider starting a GUI application as root a >possibility. > >Ok, but partitionmanager does exactly that. It restarts itself as root >if run

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-15 Thread Luigi Toscano
Wolfgang Bauer ha scritto: > Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2017, 22:21:19 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: >> Please do not consider starting a GUI application as root a possibility. > > Ok, but partitionmanager does exactly that. It restarts itself as root if run > as user. > So that instantly would rule out

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-15 Thread Wolfgang Bauer
Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2017, 21:55:12 schrieb Boudhayan Gupta: > What would you say about using Solid to probe floppy drives? I think > Solid already has the necessary hooks, but if it doesn't, we can add > them. Sounds interesting. Thanks for the suggestion. I will have a look at that too.

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-15 Thread Martin Gräßlin
Am 2017-02-15 19:50, schrieb Wolfgang Bauer: On 11 February 2017 at 13:44, Jonathan Riddell wrote: I recommend KFloppy be removed from Applications releases. It couldn't find my floppy drive and when I hacked the code to tell it where to look it depended on an external tool

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-15 Thread Boudhayan Gupta
Hi Wolfgang, What would you say about using Solid to probe floppy drives? I think Solid already has the necessary hooks, but if it doesn't, we can add them. Thanks, Boudhayan Freundliche Grüße Boudhayan Gupta KDE e.V. - Sysadmin and Community Working Groups +49 151 71032970 On 15 February

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-15 Thread Wolfgang Bauer
On 11 February 2017 at 13:44, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > I recommend KFloppy be removed from Applications releases. It > couldn't find my floppy drive and when I hacked the code to tell it > where to look it depended on an external tool fdformat which didn't > work anyway.

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-11 Thread Jonathan Riddell
Kai Uwe fixed k3b so that should be good to ship in Applications now from my casual testing https://phabricator.kde.org/D4571 Jonathan On 11 February 2017 at 13:44, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > We tested some legacy media at the Plasma sprint > >