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Bug 693711 - History and usage settings should affect ~/.cache
History and usage settings should affect ~/.cache
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Privacy
3.7.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-02-13 14:30 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2021-06-09 16:12 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.7/3.8


Description Allan Day 2013-02-13 14:30:59 UTC 
Filing this as a separate bug from bug 689607

It seems logical that the settings in the Usage and History dialog should control what is stored in ~/.cache

Discuss.
Comment 1 Allan Day 2013-04-22 22:56:12 UTC 
This somewhat depends on what we want the Privacy settings to achieve. If it's just to protect accidental slips (like showing something private on screen), then the bug isn't too much of an issue.

However, if we want to guarantee that these privacy settings affect any files containing personal information, then ~/.cache should be affected by the controls in Usage & History.

The latter seems like a more robust interpretation of privacy (although, maybe it is somewhat futile) and, as such, would be good to aim for.

I have no idea about the technical feasibility of this though.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2021-06-09 16:12:09 UTC 
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
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Thank you for your understanding and your help.