[maemo-developers] MADDE 'developer' account - good or bad?

[From: Thomas Waelti]

In my very limited personal experience from my first few hours with Qt Creator yesterday, I can already tell you that it doesn't help in security at all:
I was browsing the example projects and decided to take a look at the calendar example. Debugging it on the device caused it to replace the in-built calendar... 

-Tom

> As many of you go, Nokia Qt SDK uses, through MADDE, a special
> 'developer' account (with it's own home directory) to do stuff on the
> device
>
> That means that it doesn't use the information (databases etc.) stored
> in the users home directory. I'm gradually starting to feel this is a
> bad idea, that leads to subtle problems when developers are trying to
> pretend that they are running their application as default user (and
> hence have direct access to all the data user has).
>
> Discuss :).