Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?

[J Fernyhough]

On 24 June 2013 13:13, Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 13-06-24 08:07 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>> J Fernyhough wrote on 22/06/13 16:06:
>>
>>> On 22 June 2013 15:12, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Ubuntu, an app will request a privilege during runtime. For
>>>> example, a game might have a "find my friends who already play
>>>> this game" function, that accesses your contacts. The game would
>>>> work just fine if you don't use this function. But if you do use
>>>> it, Ubuntu would then -- and only then -- ask you if you want to
>>>> grant the app access to your contacts.
>>> ...
>>
>>> This is excellent! One quick feature request: a "remember this
>>> choice" checkbox. ;)
>>
>> I don't understand. Why would Ubuntu forget the choice otherwise?
>>
>
> Because granting a permission may depend on the context?
>
> For example, I may want to allow a photo application to use my GPS to tag a
> picture when I'm in some public place, but not when I take a picture when I'm at
> home.
>
> Granting a permission shouldn't mean I grant it forever, unless I decide it
> should be forever...having both "Just this once" and "Always" buttons satisfies
> my use case.
>
> Marc.
>
>

Exactly this.

Though having buttons would result in four choices: Yes, No, Always,
Never. Having buttons and a checkbox would be three: Yes, No,
Remember. I think the SuperUser apps on Android might be a good
example of how a single request might look? It could get a little more
complicated if the app requests several permissions at once, though.

SU old style: https://lh5.ggpht.com/lajZW6rCFPn8N9PLpNOQmCtGmmC4vfhUPXq9DVTSQ5eCDNjQVW0zOBgm1T-pCcEAQoXh
SU new style: https://lh5.ggpht.com/8O1yWEIusmeXT76UGaMJCRArG4CyQoTemPonZElB4DKOClM-KKe_mwnPMhn_pR5HEUQ

J