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

[Oz Nahum]

Hi Philipp,

Thanks for the reply.
I don't know how to upgrade the bug. Never the less, I think you
understood me well.
Normally, desktop sharing is used by me to help users for support and,
sometimes I have sessions open for root. I just want them to see what
I do, not take control over my desktop.
That is the normal case for vnc, and skype which I use for that, and I
think it's logical.

I hope someone in GNOME addresses this bug quickly. Would be nice to
have a debian patch though.



On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Philipp Kern <pkern at debian.org> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>



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