Per-app geolocation access control - feature request

[Wise Melon]

I think that it would be really good if in the Privacy section you could specify which applications you want to allow to find your geographical location, because currently you can only turn it off and on globally, but one may want to allow one application to get this information, but not to allow others. So I think that the option to globally turn it on should stay, but there should also be an option where one can select only specific applications to have this enabled for them. I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18.

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

I have no also filed a report on this issue upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=761245

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

I have changed the name of the bug report in accordance to upstream naming.

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

It also seems that upstream is pushing changes for this now, so they'll probably have to be backported in.

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

Upstream say that this is not something that it would make sense to backport in though it is mostly implemented in 3.19 (read comments on linked upstream bug report for details).

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

The upstream bug has been closed as "FIXED" and changes have been committed.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This is available in Ubuntu GNOME 17.04. It might be available in some older Ubuntu GNOME releases too.