Comment 0 for bug 1739531

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fermulator (fermulator) wrote : apport-collect SHOULD NOT collect gnome-shell command history

In https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1739525/comments/4, I ran apport-collect for that bug report.

To my horror, it posted "org.gnome.shell command-history" in the "GsettingsChanges.txt"!
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/349970997/GsettingsChanges.txt

It's _completely_ reasonable to see:
 * enabled-extensions
 * org.gnome.shell.* diffs
 * org.gnome.desktop.* diffs

But it is _NOT_ acceptable (privacy reasons) to automatically harvest a user's favorites in the gnome-shell, nor their command histories.

_IF_ we must harvest for bug-data gathering, it MUST come in a secure mechanism that is private only to submitter + the assigned dev.