From koffice-devel Mon May 20 20:02:22 2002 From: Marc Mutz Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 20:02:22 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: Draft template for registration of KOffice mimetypes (last call) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=102192570825812 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 May 2002 21:14, Nicolas Goutte wrote: > > KApp documents include document metadata such as the name > > of the author, etc. However, none of this data is written > > automatically. The KApp 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. > > That seems wrong to me too! (At least for KWord.) > > The document information *is* automatically written. And the default > information is not empty (for example author name and email address) Last time I looked at a fresh KWord document, all fields in the=20 "Document Info" dialog were blank. Did this change in the meantime? > The "full control" is the dialog in which you can edit the document > information. However, you have to do it again for each file. IIUYC, KWord writes default author information without asking the user? Like extracting the full name from /etc/passwd and writing that into=20 every document that the user creates??? Bah. I thought we had learned something from MS errors. :-( Next thing will be embedding scripts in .KWD files? Just joking... (hopefully!). Marc =2D --=20 Marc Mutz =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE86VZO3oWD+L2/6DgRAtiiAKDXAtGb1is2plHaSme6jE62zvuWTwCdGIay aVj1gXIldcX+8a4YVdxR/KU=3D =3D9ujF =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel