Re: Autoplay considered harmful
Vista (and I think XP too) ask whether you want to start the Autorun program, or do a few other actions (open explorer, copy disk, etc). Remco ----- Original Message ----
From: Evil Jay <wine(a)eternaldusk.com> To: Steven Edwards <winehacker(a)gmail.com> Cc: wine-devel <wine-devel(a)winehq.org>; Dan Kegel <dank(a)kegel.com> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 5:44:15 PM Subject: Re: Autoplay considered harmful
The purist in me says that WINE should not improve on Windows - it should behave the same way, warts and all. If I had a vote, I'd vote to enable it by default, but give the user an easy way to disable it in winecfg. (And I'd immediately disable it the first time I ran Winecfg!)
But, whatever you guys decide to do is cool - as long as you keep cranking out this great package! :)
-Jesse
Steven Edwards wrote:
On Feb 16, 2008 8:58 AM, Dan Kegel wrote:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/15/BU47V0VOH.DTL&ty...
says that USB devices are being sold with infected autorun apps. "If you plug in, you're already infected,"
I'd say that's a pretty good argument for not supporting autoplay...
I was actually thinking about this today. The right method would be to use HAL notification events to prompt the user if they want to autorun when sticking a new cdrom in. There could even be warning text in the dialog so that if it pops up with other device insertion, the user would know that it could be a virus.
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XP does not do this. I've never used Vista, nor can I imagine why anyone would want to. If Vista does do this, then prompting would be proper, but only when Wine is configured to present itself as Vista. -J Remco wrote:
Vista (and I think XP too) ask whether you want to start the Autorun program, or do a few other actions (open explorer, copy disk, etc).
Remco
----- Original Message ----
From: Evil Jay <wine(a)eternaldusk.com> To: Steven Edwards <winehacker(a)gmail.com> Cc: wine-devel <wine-devel(a)winehq.org>; Dan Kegel <dank(a)kegel.com> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 5:44:15 PM Subject: Re: Autoplay considered harmful
The purist in me says that WINE should not improve on Windows - it should behave the same way, warts and all. If I had a vote, I'd vote to enable it by default, but give the user an easy way to disable it in winecfg. (And I'd immediately disable it the first time I ran Winecfg!)
But, whatever you guys decide to do is cool - as long as you keep cranking out this great package! :)
-Jesse
Steven Edwards wrote:
On Feb 16, 2008 8:58 AM, Dan Kegel wrote:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/15/BU47V0VOH.DTL&ty...
says that USB devices are being sold with infected autorun apps. "If you plug in, you're already infected,"
I'd say that's a pretty good argument for not supporting autoplay...
I was actually thinking about this today. The right method would be to use HAL notification events to prompt the user if they want to autorun when sticking a new cdrom in. There could even be warning text in the dialog so that if it pops up with other device insertion, the user would know that it could be a virus.
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On Saturday 16 February 2008 10:54:47 am Remco wrote:
Vista (and I think XP too) ask whether you want to start the Autorun program, or do a few other actions (open explorer, copy disk, etc).
Some desktop managers already do autoplay-like behavior. In KDE, when I put in a CD/DVD for the first time, it'll ask me if I want to play it (if it's a video dvd/audio cd), if I want to open a burning program (if it's a blank cd/dvd), or if I want to browse it. And whether I want it to continue asking. It'd be quite annoying for both Wine *and* the DM to keep trying to autorun a disc I put in.
On Feb 16, 2008 2:29 PM, Chris Robinson <chris.kcat(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Some desktop managers already do autoplay-like behavior. In KDE, when I put in a CD/DVD for the first time, it'll ask me if I want to play it (if it's a video dvd/audio cd), if I want to open a burning program (if it's a blank cd/dvd), or if I want to browse it. And whether I want it to continue asking. It'd be quite annoying for both Wine *and* the DM to keep trying to autorun a disc I put in.
Ideally the freedesktop should define a spec (which they may already do as part of HAL) that we should be able to interface with. There should be a way to have the auto insert event detect a autorun.inf and prompt the user if they want to open it with Wine. If no one else wants to research it I'll try to take a look in to it sometime. -- Steven Edwards "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
Le samedi 16 février 2008 à 20:07 -0500, Steven Edwards a écrit :
Ideally the freedesktop should define a spec (which they may already do as part of HAL) that we should be able to interface with. There should be a way to have the auto insert event detect a autorun.inf and prompt the user if they want to open it with Wine. If no one else wants to research it I'll try to take a look in to it sometime.
It is already implemented in gnome svn. Have a look here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453266 -Hanusz Leszek
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