The file ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/faviconrc is a privacy-sensitive file almost as much as browsing history, since it contains a list of all visited sites that featured a favicon. The history file at ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/konq_history is even more sensitive as it contains the browsing history.
As such, their contents should be cleared when "Favourite Icons" and "Web History" are selected for cleanup in privacy KDE Control Module.
However, when the user issues "kcmshell privacy", and selects all web browsing items, then clicks "Clean Up", they are left intact. Moreover, if the user deletes the faviconrc file by hand, it will be *recreated* (!!!) when KDE session ends because it's maintained in memory and flushed to disk at KDE session shutdown. In order to clean up faviconrc, the user has to leave KDE and only when there's no KDE session running (e.g. by logging in on on VGA console), he has to delete ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/faviconrc.
This is a serious privacy issue, as the privacy control module doesn't do what it suggests it is doing, and in addition the current logic of KDE makes cleaning up by hand much harder than one would possibly expect.
When cleaning up, the privacy KDE control module should immediately clean up both the on disk and in-memory representations of web browsing history and favicons.
Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Description says "clear...", since no data is really cleared I assume that "clear..." means "keep". Please, fix this -- change the words, or change the checkboxes.
And while talking about the labeling, please change "clean up" to "clear all data" -- to use the same verb and make it clear it is about to clear all data, not only selected (right?).