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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
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
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
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
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
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.
>
>
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,
>
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
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,
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
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
> 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
>
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
>
>
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