Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 16th Sep 2005 21:02 UTC, submitted by Josh
Klik is a system which creates self-contained packages of programmes installable over the web with a single click. In this article Kurt Pfeifle discusses the potential uses of this technology for helping the non-coding contributors to KDE. He also looks at how the system works and the obvious security issues involved.
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Member since:In Tiger, you do not get an alert the first time you run an app by double clicking it. I guess it is assumed that the user explicitely wanted to do that, although I understand how some apps might fake themselves under a folder or drive icon.
However Tiger does present an alert the first time you launch an app by double clicking a document associated with it, just in case a rogue app changed the defaut association. Which is neat IMHO.
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2005-08-29
I agree with that "first run check" thing. It's funny that you are warned when downloading an app from the net only.
I think the first time ever you launch an app, wherever it comes from (cd-rom, whatever) the user should be warning with a message like: "Hey, it's the first time you launch this application, are you sure you want to allow running it". Ideally you could test drive the app in a safe temporary user-account, just like you can do with dashboard.