From kde-devel  Sun Jun 22 20:49:11 2003
From: Ralf Hoelzer <ralf () well ! com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 20:49:11 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Privacy Control Center module
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=105631500020271

I was missing a quick way in KDE to clean up all privacy related traces, such
as cookies, caches, clipboards, command and URL histories, stored passwords 
etc. 

So I have started to write a small control center module that offers these 
actions in a central place, sorted into different sections. It would fit 
nicely into the existing "Security & Privacy" category.

Here's a screenshot:

http://www.well.com/~ralf/kcm_privacy.png

Not all apps are as nice as Konqueror and offer the required functionality 
through dcop. I tried writing the config files directly, but apps like 
kdesktop/minicli write the configuration back on exit, which makes it almost 
impossible to clear things like the "Run Command" history. If nobody objects, 
I would like to add some dcop functions in these cases (such as kdesktop) to 
enable this. I definitely think dcop is the best way to perform these 
cleanups, the other ways I tried are pretty ugly hacks :).

Does anybody think this privacy kcm module is a good idea? If so, I can
make the code available and add more functionality and the required dcop calls 
where they are needed.

regards,

Ralf
 
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