Privacy settings don't affect Gnome recently-used list.
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Activity Log Manager |
Fix Released
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Medium
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| activity-log-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Blocking directories or apps, or clearing the history entirely in the Privacy settings pane does not prevent files in those directories or opened by those applications from appearing in the Gnome "Recent Files" list in file open/save dialogs. This second log is stored in "~/.local/
While I accept that the activity log manager cannot control the monitoring of each individual program, I expected that it would control the *global* recent files list.
Short term: If there is no way to offer the same control, maybe an option to disable it (writing "gtk-recent-
Noteworthy: in my searches to make sure my bug report was original, I came across a few people who had the complaint about the "Recent Files" list and I saw a number of replies telling them to use the Privacy pane.
Related branches
- Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा): Approve
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Diff: 23 lines (+5/-0)1 file modifiedsrc/unified-privacy.vala (+5/-0)
- Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा): Approve
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Diff: 18 lines (+2/-0)1 file modifiedsrc/unified-privacy.vala (+2/-0)
| Magnetizer (magnetizer) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in activity-log-manager: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in activity-log-manager (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote | #3 |
| Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote | #4 |
| Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) (manishsinha) wrote | #5 |
| Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) (manishsinha) wrote | #6 |
| Changed in activity-log-manager: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Jeremy Bicha (jbicha) |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
| milestone: | none → 0.9.7 |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #7 |
| Changed in activity-log-manager (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
| Changed in activity-log-manager (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| Changed in activity-log-manager: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| Changed in activity-log-manager: | |
| assignee: | Jeremy Bicha (jbicha) → nobody |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
In addition to this, turning "Record Activity" on the privacy settings screen off should also inhibit additions to ~/.local/
At this moment I work around the problem by
sudo chattr +i ~/.local/
which inhibits additions to the recently-used file.
You can change this back by
sudo chattr -i ~/.local/
so the next item will be added again.
This works but it is cumbersome. It would be nice if the privacy settings could take care of it. Of course, the chattr command has to be run by root which could be a problem for a simple on/off switch.