Hi,
Jacob Appelbaum wrote (13 Oct 2012 11:02:17 GMT) :
> As this is a modular kernel - is there a reason not to simply add
> a "enable firewire" widget?
There are several I can see:
* It is a UX failure every time someone has to go out of their way to
have Tails work with their hardware.
* Every such widget we add to Tails Greeter makes the greeter worse
for every Tails user: more cluttered, more complicated.
That's why I still prefer the "let's guess what the user wants"
approach: if they plug a device in the "X" slot, that's probably
because they want to use it, so let's keep the "X" bus enabled, and
disable it else.
OTOH, I understand your concern, and I now think the 5 minutes delay
that was suggested may be a bit too long. We did not specify exactly
when the 5 minutes countdown starts, anyway. Perhaps we could start an
initscript right after GDM, have it sleep 1 minute, and then disable
these dangerous buses if unused? (This gives a clear visual indication
of when the countdown starts.)
Cheers,
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