If the user installed an app that takes screenshots of the screen periodically and dumps them to a disk, I'd imagine that's functionality he wanted. Why would we prompt him?
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Martin Peres <martin.pe...@free.fr> wrote: > Le 08/01/2014 19:47, Jasper St. Pierre a écrit : > > Prompting the user "are you *sure* you really meant to take a screenshot? >> Yes/No" when he presses Print Screen is just a way to piss her off. >> > Please don't mix everything and read carefully what I said. > > Pressing "Print screen" IS the event that proves the physical user of the > computer wants it, not another app. No need for a popup. > The pop up is only useful if no user intent is not known by the > compositor. That is to say, when an app that didn't get run in response to > a print-screen hot key tries to get a screenshot, it shouldn't be allowed > without the user's consent. > > What Sebastian wants is simply to have a pool of trusted apps who can > access restricted interfaces. I find this insufficient for the reasons I > listed before (what happens if you install an app that allows taking > screenshots and save them to a file automatically? without any input from > the user? Well, you just lost the confidentiality of your display, too > bad...). > > Cheers, > Martin > -- Jasper
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