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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Privacy Control Center module
From:       Benjamin Meyer <ben () meyerhome ! net>
Date:       2003-06-22 21:01:13
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On Sunday 22 June 2003 4:49 pm, Ralf Hoelzer wrote:
> 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.
 
Although I do like that idea I think that it is better to improve the existing 
applications to have the cleanup ability within their own configure and to 
make sure that they all use the .cache directory.  Adding a new module only 
duplicates the ability which can confuse users on several levels.

- -Benjamin Meyer
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