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Merge lp:~kees/libunity/remote-search-none into lp:libunity

  1. remote-search-none
  2. Merge into trunk
Proposed by Kees Cook
Status: Needs review
Proposed branch: lp:~kees/libunity/remote-search-none
Merge into: lp:libunity
Diff against target: 12 lines (+1/-1)
1 file modified
data/com.canonical.Unity.Lenses.gschema.xml.in.in (+1/-1)
To merge this branch: bzr merge lp:~kees/libunity/remote-search-none
Reviewer Review Type Date Requested Status
Unity Team Pending
Review via email: mp+134180@code.launchpad.net

Description of the change

Default online search preferences to disabled until there is a UI for selective control with sensible user notification about the privacy implications of enabling this (LP: #1073114).

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Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa) wrote :

Looks like a pretty straigtforward change that addresses the default nature of the feature which gave rise to the bug and has raised concern.

Hopefully the Unity Team will review this.

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Nathan Williams (nathwill-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

+1

opt-in would alleviate much of the ire over this feature

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Michael Hall (mhall119) wrote :

This changes an important default setting that has a significant impact on the user experience presented. Have you discussed and gotten approval from the design team for this functionality change?

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Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa) wrote :

> This changes an important default setting that has a significant impact on the
> user experience presented. Have you discussed and gotten approval from the
> design team for this functionality change?

The proposer of this MP sits on the Ubuntu Technical Board.

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153. By Kees Cook

Default online search preferences to disabled until there is a UI for
selective control with sensible user notification about the privacy
implications of enabling this (LP: #1073114).

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1=== modified file 'data/com.canonical.Unity.Lenses.gschema.xml.in.in'
2--- data/com.canonical.Unity.Lenses.gschema.xml.in.in 2012-09-25 15:10:07 +0000
3+++ data/com.canonical.Unity.Lenses.gschema.xml.in.in 2012-11-13 19:36:25 +0000
4@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
5 <schemalist>
6 <schema path="/com/canonical/unity/lenses/" id="com.canonical.Unity.Lenses" gettext-domain="libunity">
7 <key type="s" name="remote-content-search">
8- <default>'all'</default>
9+ <default>'none'</default>
10 <choices><choice value='all'/><choice value='none'/></choices>
11 <summary>Content fetching from remote source preference.</summary>
12 <description>"all" is to enable the supported default lens to search from remote and commercial sources. "none" will indicate the lenses to not perform that remote search at all.</description>

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