[Bug] ... about privacy-menu-extension HOT 3 CLOSED

Is this a duplicate of #13?

If the application isn't sandboxed (snap / flatpak), the settings won't do anything.

If they're flatpaked and the settings don't do anything, as long as the settings in GNOME Settings match the extension, any bug isn't extension side.

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Ouch, … I was about to check whether you actually disabled the camera and mic.

If all the extension do is to manipulate rights for some subset of apps, then it isn't a truly privacy protecting extension, it is only a quick access to some rights for those apps. When those settings aren't enforced then the extension gives a false impression of privacy.

You should change the extension so it clearly gives the user the mental idea that this extension manipulates rights for sandboxed apps, and that any apps at system level is still able to access the camera and/or mic.

I would propose that you add a toggle list of which individual apps it is able to limit, with an additional entry for "all apps", "all sandboxed apps", or something similar. The additional toggles will then give the impression that this is at application level and not at the system level. Then I would add "rights" in the name to clearly signal that this isn't a system manipulating extension, it only manipulates the rights for some applications.

See also Clarify that disabling camera doesn't apply to built-in applications at Gnome Gitlab.

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On GNOME Extensions, the extension's name is "Privacy Quick Settings". This is because the extension provides quick access to GNOME's privacy settings.

The URL on GitHub is leftover from when the extension created its own dropdown menu, from the top panel, now put behind a setting.

I intend to keep the privacy name, as it only exposes GNOME's privacy settings in a quicker way, so I feel that using another name is misleading. If GNOME changes their naming, I'd change the extension to match.

The paragraph at the top of this project's README was aimed to help clarify this, I think I used the issue you linked to check it was factually accurate. If I've made a mistake, feel free to point it out :)

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