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Do not hide untrusted PDF after conversion #795

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marmarek opened this Issue Mar 8, 2015 · 2 comments

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marmarek commented Mar 8, 2015

Reported by marmarek on 4 Feb 2014 02:57 UTC
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/cu7zRU4oKqM/pIuI8KkVMwEJ

> IMHO, it should not rename the original to a hidden file.
>
> When I first started using Qubes, I didn't know this either, and thought
> the original had been deleted when I did an accidental conversion. (It's
> very easy to misclick the option in the context menu.) I later
> discovered by accident that it renames the originals to hidden files
> when I was investigating why so much space was being used in an AppVM.
>

The intention was to prevent the user from accidentally clicking the
untrusted file. Perhaps we can just move all the untrusted files to some
predefined user dir, such as ~/QubesUntrustedPDFs?

Migrated-From: https://wiki.qubes-os.org/ticket/795

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Modified by marmarek on 14 Mar 2014 10:13 UTC

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marmarek commented Mar 8, 2015

Modified by marmarek on 14 Mar 2014 10:13 UTC

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