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Originally Posted by Turtle91
I don't think he intends to play "tricks". He is simply saying that grandma wouldn't be opening up the software and looking through the settings when she could just open up the OPDS link that her son set up for her on her ereader...
Besides, it is too simple to "secure" your settings page with a password...ie. if I want to prevent grandma's prying eyes I would just put a password lock to get into the server setup page.....if people really thought that would be an issue. I'm certainly not saying anyone SHOULD, just that it is possible.
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That is all fine and well, but what we were actually discussing was the desktop applicaction, not the server, and what I actually said is, it isn't calibre's job to offer tools that secure your library against the subset of the population that cannot figure out a file browser.
It is calibre's job to, when broadcasting onto the open internet, offer options to put up an authentication barrier before a visitor can get access, anyway anyhow.
It is a very DRM idea to offer the ability to password-protect a GUI interface to a non-secured file tree.
Like Kovid said -- security through obscurity. (One of) the definition of DRM.
calibre doesn't want any part of useless, pointless drivel like that, as far as I am concerned, and I get the feeling I have correctly called Kovid's opinion as well.
@Katsunami -- why not just disable VL tabs and have calibre start up automatically with a VL? Grandma presumably cannont figure that out any more than the library switcher or an actual (shudder) file tree.