Re: Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?

2013-07-03 Thread J Fernyhough
On 3 July 2013 15:14, Robie Basak wrote: > It's not much good to know that an app is misbehaving. I'd like to stop > it. > > Having an all-or-nothing choice, like Android, often means that apps get > feature creep, and before you know it your apps have far more > permissions than you'd prefer. In

RE: Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?

2013-07-03 Thread Matt B .
Yeah. This seems like a great way to solve the problem. As I understand it this is what Cyanogenmod is implementing and what I wondered if ubuntu would incorporate. The cyanogenmod method shouldn't need more than one dialogue to accomplish this. > Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:14:45 +0100 > From: ro

Re: Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?

2013-07-03 Thread Robie Basak
It's not much good to know that an app is misbehaving. I'd like to stop it. Having an all-or-nothing choice, like Android, often means that apps get feature creep, and before you know it your apps have far more permissions than you'd prefer. Individually we may know that we have a choice to not us

RE: Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?

2013-07-03 Thread Matt B .
> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 16:57:57 +0100 > From: m...@canonical.com > To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)? > > > I agree this is a good model. Still, I worry about the possibility > > of having a lot of "are you sure" dialogs in a nicely i