GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 785223
Location "not in use" label is misleading
Last modified: 2021-06-09 16:26:06 UTC
Using GNOME 3.24.2, gnome-control-center's privacy panel is indicating "location: not in use" but it looks like gnome-shell uses the location? (as described https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100263). If that's the case then the label is misleading, it suggests to user that the system is not connecting to outside services when it is. Should it rather be "system use only" rather than "not in use" in this case? Also if some users would prefer for their system to never reach to a location service it would be nice to have a real "not in use" which is respected by the desktop components as well (but I guess that's another request and should be a different report)
See also https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785342
that's still an issue in 3.26
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