[virt-tools-list] [PATCH virt-viewer 2/2] Quit application if in kiosk mode and authentication has been cancelled

Eduardo Lima (Etrunko) etrunko at redhat.com
Mon May 22 13:39:15 UTC 2017


On 21/05/17 04:23, Xiaodai Wang wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Victor Toso" <lists at victortoso.com>
>> To: "Eduardo Lima (Etrunko)" <etrunko at redhat.com>
>> Cc: virt-tools-list at redhat.com
>> Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2017 5:26:29 AM
>> Subject: Re: [virt-tools-list] [PATCH virt-viewer 2/2] Quit application if in kiosk mode and authentication has been
>> cancelled
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 05:16:53PM -0300, Eduardo Lima (Etrunko) wrote:
>>> Related: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446161
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Lima (Etrunko) <etrunko at redhat.com>
>>
>> I'm not 100% sure that this would be the desirable behavior. If one runs
>> the app in -k, isn't it the point that the user would not have access to
>> the desktop?
>>
>> AFAICT, the available options are:
>>
>> 1) Click cancel, close virt-viewer (this patch)
>> 2) Click cancel, open dialog again (your suggestion on bz#1446161)
>> 3) Remove cancel button as (2) shows that it is useless
> 
>        -k, --kiosk
>        Start in kiosk mode. In this mode, the application will start in fullscreen with minimal UI. 
>        It will prevent the user from quitting or performing any interaction outside of usage of the remote desktop session.
> 
> From the man page of virt-viewer, i think 2) or 3) is better than 1). 

Hiding/blocking cancel button is, IMO, useless in this case. We will
only add unnecessary complexity to the dialog code for this specific
use. I will rather go with option 2 then.

By the way, it would be nice to have some documentation about what are
the goals with this feature.

-- 
Eduardo de Barros Lima (Etrunko)
Software Engineer - RedHat
etrunko at redhat.com




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