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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Author info in kofficerc
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2001-12-18 20:25:14
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This is not relavent as the user still has to open the document-info dialog 
in both cases.


On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 09:00:56PM +0100, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> Well, we have this in the security consideration section of the new mimetype:
> 
> <QUOTE>
> ????????KWord documents include document metadata such as the name of
> ????????the author, etc. However, none of this data is written
> ????????automatically. The KWord user has full control over what
> ????????metadata is to be included and must actively request the
> ????????inclusion. As such, the use of this mimetype does not lead to
> ????????hidden leaking of possibly sensitive data.
> </QUOTE>
> 
> With a central registry, I personally think that the user does not control 
> anymore the inclusion of his data in KWord.
> 
> However, we can have an option somewhere in KOffice to ask if the user wants 
> his author data included or not. (It is what I had planned in the dialog of 
> KWord's HTML export filter.)
> 
> Have a nice day/evening/night!
> 
> On Tuesday 18 December 2001 17:04, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > Anyone disagree that we should _not_ save the author info which is also
> > set in KDE globel in the kofficerc ?
> >
> > In short;
> > when I change my settings in kcontrol I also have to change them in koffice
> > by opening the document-info dialog and manually changing them there.
> > I don't think that we should save the email/full name/company in koffice
> > since I hate duplicate info management :)
> >
> > The patch:
> >
> > (...)
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Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
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