[App permissions] Change prompt "wants to record audio" to "wants to use the microphone"

Bug #1535335 reported by Jean-Baptiste Lallement
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical System Image
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned
pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

The prompt when the camera wants to access the hardware to record audio is currently "wants to record audio". This is not really accurate since an app can request access to the microphone without actually recording anything. furthermore the direct translation to French as an example is not really meaningful.

"Microphone" is also consistent with the word used in system-settings/security & privacy/app permissions

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityPermissions#permissions>: “Prompt text … wants to use the microphone”

description: updated
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → backlog
status: New → Confirmed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Paty Davila (dizzypaty)
summary: - Change prompt "wants to record audio" to "wants to access microphone"
+ [Camera app] Change prompt "wants to record audio" to "wants to access
+ microphone"
summary: - [Camera app] Change prompt "wants to record audio" to "wants to access
- microphone"
+ [App permissions] Change prompt "wants to record audio" to "wants to
+ access microphone"
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
assignee: nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote : Re: [App permissions] Change prompt "wants to record audio" to "wants to access microphone"

This is not a design bug: the design already specifies that the text is supposed to be “wants to use the microphone”. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityPermissions#permissions>

no longer affects: ubuntu-ux
description: updated
summary: - [App permissions] Change prompt "wants to record audio" to "wants to
- access microphone"
+ [App permissions] Change prompt "wants to record audio" to "wants to use
+ the microphone"
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
tags: added: string-fix
tags: added: pulse-touch
Revision history for this message
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Ubuntu Touch is no longer supported.

Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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