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Would you prefer a less customizable desktop, for increased stability? (discuss.kde.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am not a KDE dev, but interested in that topic.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes I agree. There is a switch you can use to block installing Addons.

But that is also not nice. Sandboxing them, having a manual review process, would help. But that is a TON of work.

I also change some things like UI buttons and find it to be a core requirement. At the same time, I could live without extreme theming, or just having widgets on the panel, or just having a bottom panel etc.

This is a difficult decision, so I thought it would be a good idea to just find out what some users want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Sandboxing them, having a manual review process, would help. But that is a TON of work.

This is why it would make sense to have a restrictive and simple API that supports basic extensions with little oversight. Configuration only; no executable code.

For the small minority of add-ons that would require executable code, there could be a separate API with a more involved installation process, making it obvious to the user that the trust and risk levels are different from the above. A sandbox feature could perhaps be developed in the long run, but that is indeed a ton of work and hard to get right, and isn't really necessary for this approach to be effective. Just having a software-style installation process (e.g. through a distro's package manager) and different APIs would go a long way toward protecting users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

And KDE components could be migrated to use that API and be separatable.

Currently it may be a bit messy.