[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#569808: Empathy does not respect settings of remote desktop prefernces in gnome

[Philipp Kern]

severity 569808 important
thanks

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 07:20:40PM +0100, kutio wrote:
> I think it's not a security problem, let me explain. If a user removes
> all access in gnome preferences and wants to share his desktop with a
> friend. He has to change all access in gnome-preferences, and after
> launch share my desktop, and when it's finish rechange gnome
> preferences and it's not really convenient. At the moment share my
> desktop doesn't care about gnome preferences, because if a user take
> the decision to share his desktop just for the session, it's his
> decision and gnome-preferences doesn't have to interfere. This
> solution is more convenient because if a user wants to share his
> desktop he doesn't need to change gnome-preferences, the feature does
> it for him and doesn't affect gnome-preferences in the future.

So possibly empathy should offer an option to only share the desktop
read-only instead of read-write?

I don't think it warrants "grave" though, especially if the sharing is
not done automatically on call but rather on request.  If the latter's
the case, feel free to reupgrade the bug.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern