disabling "show temperature" and "show weather" doesn't stop weather from showing up in the location list
Bug #199597 reported by
Steve Langasek
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| GNOME Panel |
Expired
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Medium
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| gnome-panel (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-panel
I never asked for a weather service on my desktop. I just want a clock.
I've turned off 'show weather' and 'show temperature' in the preferences; but if I left-click on the time, my locations are still shown with a weather icon next to them. This means that gnome-panel is connecting to the network somewhere to pull down weather information, without my permission! If this clock applet is going to be the default, there needs to be an option to disable weather updates by the GNOME panel; for users with limited bandwidth, these unrequested weather updates are a potential DoS, not to mention being an information leak.
Revision history for this message
| Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in gnome-panel: | |
| assignee: | nobody → desktop-bugs |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in gnome-panel: | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
| Changed in gnome-panel: | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
| Changed in gnome-panel: | |
| status: | Invalid → New |
| Changed in gnome-panel: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Medium |
| Changed in gnome-panel: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in gnome-panel: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Expired |
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