[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

[Gary Martin]

On 2 Aug 2012, at 12:50, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:

>> 
>>       > > On this point, the code seems to not behave you describe
>>       above. Testing on an XO-1, the DX3 build 143 International, I see
>>       an item in the Identity section saying "Lease: Not available". The
>>       wording "Not available" suggests something is missing from my XO
>>       when actually this machine does not need a lease, and is
>>       unsecured, this line of information should not be displayed at all
>>       to the user.
>> 
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>>       >
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>> Yes, that is correct. That change will be made when the code is ported over to mainline.
>> 
> 
> Maybe you can put this information in a "Security" section instead of Identity,
> and show it only if needed?

+1, sounds like a reasonable choice. Could also be a fair place for future patches to add security related information on things like root access available/unavailable, OFW prompt enabled/disabled, signed/unsigned build.

--Gary

> Gonzalo