"Privacy" tab in gnome-control-center is not findable

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Thanks for your report!

If I understand it correctly, this is because "Privacy" is no longer a panel, but just a category where privacy related panels are shown. One possible way to improve it is to add the "privacy" keyword to the .desktop files of the applicable panels. I prepared a debdiff which does that, and the attached image shows the result.

For the case you want to test, I also uploaded a modified version of gnome-control-center to this PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/gnome-control-center

Attached please find the debdiff.

One problem with this solution is that it breaks existing translations of the affected Keywords strings. Notifying the translators may compensate for that a bit.

Sebastien: Any thoughts on the idea?

Thanks for the quick fix, Gunnar!

I installed the pkg from your ppa and i now i get as result the categories contained in Privacy tab, just as you said.

It's not quite the same behavior as the other tabs and it may confuse a little bit, but i think it's quite easy to get the idea. I believe it's a great improvement of what it was.

@Gunnar, could you send that change upstream to gitlab or discuss with Robert Ancell?

It feels a bit late to break translations, I'm not confident we will get those redone for most locales in time. One alternative approch could be to append the keywords from the code side to all subpanel from a category, it also have the avantage to require to translate the category only once and mean not breaking existing translations...

@Gunnar, it's probably worth reporting upstream for discussion.

The code adding the keywords seems to be there
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/blob/master/shell/cc-shell-model.c#L241

you could imagine doing a

if panel = 'name' or 'othername'; then

if panel = 'name' or 'othername' or 'thirpanel'; then
    keywords += _('Privacy')

(pseudo code to give the idea)

That seems hackish though, probably best to just propose your patch adding the keywords upstream for next cycle

Thanks for considering it, Sebastien. I submitted an upstream merge request:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/732

The MR was merged into upstream master. So let's finalize it next cycle by adding the "privacy" keyword to 0015-connectivity-add-network-connectivity-checking-toggl.patch too.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:3.36.3-1ubuntu1

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gnome-control-center (1:3.36.3-1ubuntu1) groovy; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version rebased on Debian (lp: #1884063)

  [ Gunnar Hjalmarsson ]
  * debian/patches/0030-temporarily-revert-alt-char-key.patch:
    - Change po/POTFILES.in too, so dh_translations can create
      gnome-control-center-2.0.pot.
  * d/p/0015-connectivity-add-network-connectivity-checking-toggl.patch:
    - Add "privacy" to Keywords in the .desktop file in line with
      https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/commit/05f3cb67
      (LP: #1869288)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * d/p/0008-Allow-tweaking-some-settings-for-Ubuntu-Dock.patch:
    - Ensure dock position is respected in RTL (LP: #1876937)
    - Add proper matching the dock monitor ID (LP: #1877108)
  * d/p/0024-display-Allow-fractional-scaling-to-be-enabled.patch:
    - Improve fractional scaling toggling (LP: #1876891, #1876894)
    - Look for proper fractional scaling key in Wayland and X11 (LP: #1871864)
  * d/p/0031-fingerprint-dialog-Don-t-limit-the-number-of-maximum.patch:
    - Don't make flowbox children selectable (LP: #1877441)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:44:56 +0200