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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: kdesu showing the command to be executed
From:       Dominic Cleal <dom.kde () computerkb ! co ! uk>
Date:       2004-11-25 15:32:42
Message-ID: 20041125153242.1861ae6b () localhost
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On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:17:44 -0700
James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@acm.org> wrote:

> Gustavo Pichorim Boiko wrote:

> >>
> >>That's funny!
> > 
> > 
> > Why do you think that's funny?
> > Have you ever seen kdesu showing a command with many options and
> > flags? This is completelly ugly and useless from the user's pov
> 
> No, it isn't funny.  Yes, it looks like a mess if there is a long
> command line especially since the substitution parameters are not
> substituted.
> 
> My suggestion is that the command line be pruned to show only the
> actual command -- no options and no path.

Here are a couple of things that come to mind:

Provide a button of some sort to show the full command line to the
user if they want (e.g. so you know what /bin/rm is trying to do).

Perhaps a database (would be difficult to maintain however - maybe with
the help of distro packages it could be done) or another parameter to
kdesu to give the user a friendly description of what the command will
do.  Of course, it's open to"phishing" type attacks so if people come to
rely on just the description passed by a parameter to the program, then
it's a security problem.

-- 
Dominic Cleal
dominic@computerkb.co.uk

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