Re: awareness + flexibility + security

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 19:53 +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> Once the file is dropped, a window
> > pops up that informs the user about the consequences of sharing the
> > file with joe, and offers the option to set a file size limit (and
> > maybe a scheduler limit).  The user also is educated that he can later
> > revoke the shared resource by dragging/deleting the shared link in the
> > window.
> 
> That'll be an awful lot of popup windows.  While this may be a good default,
> it very much needs a "don't ask/tell this again" switch.

Better still would be a UI in which no dialog is needed but sharing can
be reviewed and examined.

shap