Privacy,history and search options

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Petko wrote on 19/02/12 11:10:
> 
> I like to keep it brief so here it goes :
> 
> 1. The privacy compartment of the System settings withholds
> settings that rather correlate with the word "History" in browsers
> (that's not the main argument , but my view on things as a user) .
> As I write I saw that there is a separate History tab (and
> apparently there are other options in the compartment) , so my
> suggestion is to rename "Privacy" to "History&Privacy" , because
> now few people would relate what that compartment withholds and
> that makes it less usable .


Yes, logging file and application use is analogous to browser history.
But people are much less familiar with it, so just calling it
"History" wouldn't explain enough.

<http://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/PrivacyAndSharing?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=files-and-applications.png>
condenses the history items from three tabs into one, and better
explains why it's a privacy issue.

> 2. Add indexing options (2) in the "Files" tab : a) Index these
> locations (a separate field as the one excluding locations to
> index) b) Recheck indexed locations (a button)
> 
> ...


That's conflating logging with indexing. It might be true that the
files you don't want showing up in "Recent Files" are always (or
nearly always) the same files you don't want returned in search
results, but it would be helpful to think of examples and
counterexamples first.

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