GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 725912
Consider changing send-software-usage-stats's default to false
Last modified: 2014-03-13 13:01:06 UTC
I don't know if this was intentional or not, but.... When the setting was removed from gnome-software, the default value was false [1]. When it got added to gsettings-desktop-schemas, the default value was true [2]. I myself think we should err on the side of conservatism here. If we (or distros) want these stats, let's encourage users to opt in. I stumbled across this in the control center and was somewhat (unpleasantly) surprised that I needed to opt out. [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-software/commit/?id=6dccb4e9eda89e48ce2f99c4b37172a974910f87 [2] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gsettings-desktop-schemas/commit/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.privacy.gschema.xml.in.in?id=f5180321cb54159019355cc955b39d2357f35113
Richard, since you did both commits, could you please clarify if this was an intentional change? Thanks!
Yes, very much deliberate; it was false before as there was no user-visible UI to change the value, but I think it's quite safe to enable by default in my opinion now there is an easy way to disable it. If it is false by default, the amount of data we'd get would be lower by several orders of magnitude and be totally skewed to tweakers and power-users.
(In reply to comment #2) > Yes, very much deliberate; it was false before as there was no user-visible UI > to change the value, but I think it's quite safe to enable by default in my > opinion now there is an easy way to disable it. If it is false by default, the > amount of data we'd get would be lower by several orders of magnitude and be > totally skewed to tweakers and power-users. I agree, though I'd change the default once we have a page in gnome-initial-setup to ask the question to the user directly, so there's a strong push towards opting in.
Richard, can you file a bug about asking that question in g-i-s?
Bastien's suggested solution works for me. It's the surprise aspect that bothers me most. (Thanks Bastien!)
(In reply to comment #4) > Richard, can you file a bug about asking that question in g-i-s? See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726234 for all the other issues Allan had. Until then: commit d02c93d6ab30cfcf669c6d74768fd2febadb0af5 Author: Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com> Date: Thu Mar 13 13:00:21 2014 +0000 privacy: Disable 'send-software-usage-stats' by default Resolves: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725912