cannot set apps back to 'ask' in location access

[Jamie Strandboge]

If an app is added to the location trust-store, system settings from then on only allows setting app access to 'yes' (checked) or 'no' (unchecked). A third option should be supported: 'ask'. An easy way to achieve this is to allow items from the list to be side-swipe deleted.

This will likely affect camera and mic in 'Other app access'.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Can you give some specific examples of how this would be useful?

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

This is useful for testing, but certain users will want to reset the entries so they can better review how/when apps are using the various trusted helpers.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Okay, so it's useful for engineers and testers. I can imagine plenty of other functions fall into that category. For example, app developers might want to delete all the app's data files, to test the first-run flow. They might want to simulate running the app on a previous-generation phone, or on the last Ubuntu version that was released for a particular handset. They might want to make a slow-motion screencast of their app to check animations. They might want to test whether data migration works properly for someone who missed out on v2.0 of the app and upgraded directly from 1.1 to 3.0. And so on.

So perhaps we need a trusted app to house functions like this.